Deutsches Judentum: Aufstieg und Krise

The fourteen monographs presented in this book are a small selection of studies originally published in English in the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook between 1956 and 1962. Most of the collection is devoted to studies of outstanding Jewish personalities in German life: the philosophers Martin Buber and Julius Guttmann, the politician and philanthropist Paul Nathan, the industrialist and Zionist Salman Schocken, the banker Gerson von Bleichroder, the writer Franz Kafka, and the painter Max Liebermann.