The Jewish legacy and the German conscience : [electronic resource] essays in memory of Rabbi Joseph Asher / edited by Moses Rischin and Raphael Asher.

Cover title: The Jewish legacy & the German conscience.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The German imperative and the Jewish response / Moses Rischin -- Isn't it time? / Joseph Asher -- An incomprehensible puzzlement / Joseph Asher -- In my father's house / Raphael Asher -- A singular elegance / Robert Kirschner -- Encounter with a lost era / Peter von der Osten-Sacken -- German orthodoxy, Jewish law, and the uses of Kant / David Ellenson -- The end of the science of Judaism in Germany / Herbert Strauss -- America-bound : Wissenschaft in England / David G. Dalin -- The common folk in Mendelssohn's days / W. Gunther Plaut -- The remnants of Judeo-German / Werner Weinberg -- Between explusion and integration : east European Jews in Weimar Germany / Trude Maurer -- Torah im Derekh Eretz / Immanuel Jakobovits -- The development and design of a German-Jewish prayerbook / Jakob J. Petuchowski -- Zionism and zionists in Germany before World War I / Simcha Kling -- A refugee rabbinate / Karl Richter -- A walk on the crest / Michael Weinrich -- The yoke of the kingdom in Jerusalem / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- The art of German Jews / Ziva Amishai-Maisels -- A Jewish organist in Berlin / Ludwig Altman -- A war against human rights / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- The Holocaust and American intelligence / Barry M. Katz -- The new Germany and the old burdens / Fred Rosenbaum and Winston Pickett -- On memory and reconciliation / Elie Wiesel.