From the publisher’s description:
In the analysis of the debates in Germany over Jews, Judaism and Jewish emancipation in the late 18th and 19th centuries, Jonathan M. Hess reconstructs a crucial chapter in the history of secular anti-Semitism. He examines not only the thinking of German intellectuals of the time but also that of Jewish writers, revealing the connections between anti-Semitism and visions of modernity, and the Jewish responses to the treat posed by these connections.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2003)
Hess, Jonathan M. (NHC Fellow, 1999–00). Germans, Jews, and the Claims of Modernity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN 9780300097016.