Introduction -- I -- The Emergence of Modern Religion: Moses Mendelssohn, Neoclassicism, and Ceremonial Aesthetics -- Moses Mendelssohn and the Three Paths of German Jewish Thought -- Reciting Jesus: Heine's Nazarene Family Relations -- Religious Reform and Political Revolution in Mid-nineteenth Century Germany: The Case of Abraham Jakob Adler -- II -- Love-of-Neighbor and Ethics Out of Law in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen -- Hermann Cohen's Liturgical Reasoning on the Moral Subject and the Moral Community -- The Discovery of the "True Plato" in Some Twentieth-Century German Jewish Thinkers -- Speaking Metaphysically of a Metaphysical God: Rosenzweig, Schelling, and the Metaphysical Divide -- Verification (Bewährung) in Franz Rosenzweig -- "Within Earshot of the Young Hegel": Rosenzweig's Letter to Rudolf Ehrenberg of September 1910 -- "Brother Where Art Thou?" Reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic Master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev -- III -- "Thus Rome shows us our True Place": Reflections on the German Jewish Love for Italy -- Facing Plurality (from Marginality): The German-Jewish Reception of William James -- Leo Strauss on Lessing's Spinozism -- Strauss, Schmitt, and Peterson, or: Comparative Contours of the "Theological-Political Predicament" -- "Let me tell you a story": Walter Benjamin and the History of the Future -- Jacob Taubes, Karl Löwith, and the Interpretation of Jewish History -- The Jews They Were and the Philosophers They Wished to Become -- No "Love of the Jewish People"? Robert Weltsch's and Hans Jonas's Correspondence with Hannah Arendt on Eichmann in Jerusalem -- Bibliography Paul Mendes-Flohr -- List of Authors.