The Jewish Legacy & the German Conscience: Essays in Memory of Rabbi Joseph Asher.

Royal Octavo in dust jacket, x, 357 pp., b/w photos, index Introduction, "The German Imperative and the Jewish Response," by Rischin. Articles are "Isn't it Time?" Jospeh Asher, "An Incomprehensible Puzzlement," Joseph Asher, "In My Father's House," Raphael Asher, "A Singular Elegance," Robert Kirschner, "Encounter with a Lost era," Peter von der Osten-Sacken, "German Orthodoxy, jewish Law, and the uses of Kant," David Ellenson, "The End of the Science of Judaism in Germany," Herbert Strauss, "America-Bound: Wissenschaft in England," David G. Dalin, "The Common Folk in Mendelssohn's Days," W. Gunther Plaut, "The Remnants of Judeo-German," Werner Weinberg, "Between Expulsion and Integration: East Europena Jews in Weimar Germany," Trude Mauer, "Torah im Derekh Eretz," Immanuel Jakobovits, "The Development and Design of a German-Jewish Prayerbook," Jakob J. Petuchowski, "Zionism and Zionists in Germany Before World War I," Simcha Kling, "A Refugee Rabbinate," Karl Richter, "A Walk on the Crest," Micahel Weinrich, "The Yoke of the Kingdom in Jerusalem," Paul Mendes-Flohr, "The Art of German Jews," Ziva Amishai-Maisels, "A Jewish Organist in Berlin," Ludwig Altman, "A War Against Human Rights," Gerhard L. Weinberg, "The Holocust and American Intelligence," Barry M. Katz, "The New Germany and the Old Burdens," Fred Rosenbaum and Winston Pickett. Afterword, "On Memory and Reconciliation," by Elie Wiesel.…