CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS -- INTRODUCTION --- Christian Wiese -- PART I REFORMER, SCHOLAR, POLITICAL THINKER -- "MOST OF MY BRETHREN FIND ME UNACCEPTABLE": THE CONTROVERSIAL CAREER OF RABBI SAMUEL HOLDHEIM --- Michael A. Meyer -- FROM NATIONALITY TO RELIGION: SAMUEL HOLDHEIM'S PATH TO THE EXTREME SIDE OF RELIGIOUS REFORM --- Andreas Gotzmann -- THE POLITICS OF RELIGION IN THE THOUGHT OF SAMUEL HOLDHEIM --- Ken Koltun-Fromm -- HOLDHEIM'S SEVEN YEARS IN SCHWERIN: THE RABBI AS AN ECCLESIASTICAL COUNCILOR --- Carsten Wilke -- HOLDHEIM'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS KARAISM AS EXPOUNDED IN THE MA'AMAR HA-'ISHUT --- Katrien de Graef -- PART II HOLDHEIM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE REFORM CONTROVERSIES -- SAMUEL HOLDHEIM AND THE GERMAN CIRCUMCISION DEBATES, 1843-1876 --- Robin E. Judd -- SAMUEL HOLDHEIM AND THE PRAYERBOOK REFORM IN GERMANY --- Klaus Herrmann -- THE PROBLEMS OF MODERATE REFORM: THE HISTORY OF THE BERLIN LITURGICAL REFORMS, 1844-1862 --- Margit Schad -- SAMUEL HOLDHEIM AND ZACHARIAS FRANKEL ON THE LEGAL CHARACTER OF JEWISH MARRIAGE: AN OVERLOOKED DEBATE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIBERAL JUDAISM --- David Ellenson -- PART III RADICAL REFORM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- SAMUEL HOLDHEIM AND ZACHARIAS FRANKEL: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES --- Andreas Brämer -- HOLDHEIM AND ZUNZ: FROM THE QUESTION OF RABBINIC AUTHORITY TO A NEW DEFINITION OF CEREMONIAL LAWS --- Céline Trautmann-Waller -- SAMUEL HOLDHEIM AND SIGISMUND STERN: THE CLASH BETWEEN THE DOGMATIC AND HISTORICIST APPROACH IN CLASSICAL GERMAN REFORM JUDAISM --- Ralph Bisschops -- TRUE MOSAIC RELIGION: SAMUEL HIRSCH, SAMUEL HOLDHEIM AND THE REFORM OF JUDAISM --- Judith Frishman -- SAMUEL HOLDHEIM'S "MOST POWERFUL COMRADE IN CONVICTION": DAVID EINHORN AND THE DEBATE CONCERNING JEWISH UNIVERSALISM IN THE RADICAL REFORM MOVEMENT --- Christian Wiese -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.