David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of numerous books, including Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England, which is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. He won the Koret Jewish Book Award for Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought, and his books The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham b. Mordecai Farissol and Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History each won the National Jewish Book Award in History.

"David Ruderman's Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis is of great value in understanding an often glossed-over aspect of Jewish modernity. It is also indispensable for better understanding what is at stake as Jews and Christians continue to navigate what separates them and what unites them. Ruderman shows us the openness and seriousness of some of the missionaries and their Jewish detractors at a time when conversion was indeed very much on the table." (Tablet Magazine) "Many of the issues that Ruderman highlights are still with us today vis-a-vis mission to Jews and Jewish–Christian relations...Anyone interested in Jewish–Christian relations and in missionary work among Jewish people should read Ruderman. The biographies fascinate, and the identity issues resonate with today's concerns." (Missiology) "A fascinating, original, and pathbreaking book. With its comprehensive treatment of the contexts and meanings of the missionary Alexander McCaul's work and the rich gallery of figures who responded to it, Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis will be indispensable to scholars, students, and readers interested in Jewish cultural and intellectual history of the nineteenth century." (Shmuel Feiner, author of The Jewish Enlightenment)

David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of numerous books, including Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England, which is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. He won the Koret Jewish Book Award for Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought, and his books The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham b. Mordecai Farissol and Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History each won the National Jewish Book Award in History.

"David Ruderman's Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis is of great value in understanding an often glossed-over aspect of Jewish modernity. It is also indispensable for better understanding what is at stake as Jews and Christians continue to navigate what separates them and what unites them. Ruderman shows us the openness and seriousness of some of the missionaries and their Jewish detractors at a time when conversion was indeed very much on the table." (Tablet Magazine) "Many of the issues that Ruderman highlights are still with us today vis-a-vis mission to Jews and Jewish–Christian relations...Anyone interested in Jewish–Christian relations and in missionary work among Jewish people should read Ruderman. The biographies fascinate, and the identity issues resonate with today's concerns." (Missiology) "A fascinating, original, and pathbreaking book. With its comprehensive treatment of the contexts and meanings of the missionary Alexander McCaul's work and the rich gallery of figures who responded to it, Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis will be indispensable to scholars, students, and readers interested in Jewish cultural and intellectual history of the nineteenth century." (Shmuel Feiner, author of The Jewish Enlightenment)

David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of numerous books, including Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England, which is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. He won the Koret Jewish Book Award for Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought, and his books The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham b. Mordecai Farissol and Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History each won the National Jewish Book Award in History.

"David Ruderman's Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis is of great value in understanding an often glossed-over aspect of Jewish modernity. It is also indispensable for better understanding what is at stake as Jews and Christians continue to navigate what separates them and what unites them. Ruderman shows us the openness and seriousness of some of the missionaries and their Jewish detractors at a time when conversion was indeed very much on the table." (Tablet Magazine) "Many of the issues that Ruderman highlights are still with us today vis-a-vis mission to Jews and Jewish–Christian relations...Anyone interested in Jewish–Christian relations and in missionary work among Jewish people should read Ruderman. The biographies fascinate, and the identity issues resonate with today's concerns." (Missiology) "A fascinating, original, and pathbreaking book. With its comprehensive treatment of the contexts and meanings of the missionary Alexander McCaul's work and the rich gallery of figures who responded to it, Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis will be indispensable to scholars, students, and readers interested in Jewish cultural and intellectual history of the nineteenth century." (Shmuel Feiner, author of The Jewish Enlightenment)