pt. I. On studying Jewish history --
Defining modern Jewish history and thought --
Cultural transformation in the Italian ghetto --
17th-century Marranism & Messianism --
The challenge of Baruch Spinoza --
Moses Mendelssohn and his generation --
The science of Judaism --
Heinrich Graetz : Jewish historian --
Abraham Geiger : the shaping of Reform Judaism --
The Neo-Orthodoxy of Samson Raphael Hirsch --
Zecharias Frankel and Conservative Judaism --
Samuel David Luzzatto : Judaism & Atticism --
pt. II. Zionism's answer to the Jewish problem --
The Jewish adventure with Socialism --
Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason --
Leo Baeck's mystery and commandment --
Martin Buber's religious existentialism --
Jewish law : Martin Buber vs. Franz Rosenzweig --
Mordecai Kaplan and American Judaism --
Abraham Heschel : mystic & social activist --
Theological responses to the Nazi Holocaust --
Feminist Jewish theology --
Current trends in Jewish thought.
