Books by David N. Myers

Brings together key writings by one of the most distinguished and renowned Jewish historians of our time

Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. This title examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four Jewish thinkers, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer.

A leading scholar of Jewish history's bracing and challenging case for the role of the historian today