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For more than two decades, Ismar Schorsch has studied the genesis, impact, and meaning of modern Jewish historiography. this compilation of his writings examines the emergence of Jewish scholarship in the 19th century and ... ... Shows how the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement, which advocated a more scientific study of Judaism, "was to make historical thinking the dominant universe of discourse in Jewish life and historians its major intellectual thinkers.