“Moshe Miller writes brilliantly and clearly about the complex interplay between inherited rabbinic legal traditions on the one hand and the contemporary German cultural, religious, and political worlds that shaped and informed Samson Raphael Hirsch and his colleagues on the other hand as they struggled to confront and articulate the stance of nineteenth-century Orthodox Judaism toward the issues of universalism and particularism. Encyclopedic in his knowledge, Miller not only illuminates the history of Modern Orthodox Judaism but speaks to the role Hirsch and Orthodoxy played in the evolution of Judaism in the modern world. This book constitutes a major academic achievement and fills in a much-needed chapter in Jewish religious-intellectual history!”—David Ellenson, author of Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish Orthodoxy"Moshe Miller does an outstanding job demonstrating the universal religious humanism at the heart of Hirsch’s thought. This is a crucial contribution to the study of nineteenth century Judaism that shatters myths about Orthodox exclusivism commonly held by both scholars and the public.”—Michah Gottlieb, author of The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism as Spiritual Enterprise"The author demonstrates a high level of erudition, manifest not only in the text, but also in the extensive notes. He is well familiar with traditional sources and with a wide range of modern scholarly ones."—Michael A. Meyer is the Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History Emeritus at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. Three of his books have won the Jewish Book Council’s National Jewish Book Award, are The Origins of the Modern Jew; Response to Modernity; and German Jewish History in Modern Times
