'Weinstein and Zakai's book makes a worthwhile contribution to our understanding of how German Jewish thinkers encountered historicism as a legacy of European thought that had to be opposed, or used with caution, because it seemed entangled in the crisis of Nazism.' Ben Wurgaft, The Journal of Modern History
1. Hans Baron: humanism and Republican liberty in an age of tyranny; 2. Karl Popper: critical interpretation as fighting fascism; 3. Leo Strauss as Talmud in the wrong place; 4. Erich Auerbach and the crisis of German philology.