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Abraham Geiger & Liberal Judaism
The Challenge of the Nineteenth Century

Max Wiener 		Abraham Geiger gave the Reform Movement in Judaism its intellectual stature and theoretical justification. His struggle against the traditionalists forms an interesting chapter in the history of German Jewry, yet is now of even greater interest to American Jews, for ultimately Geiger found more convinced and ardent followers on this side of the Atlantic than he had had in Europe.
The late Dr. Max Wiener was a keen student of Jewish intellectual history. An admirer of Geiger, his biographical introduction to this volume is sympathetic and balanced. But the real Geiger — a great scholar, profound thinker, and ardent Jew — emerges from the excerpts of his own writings to which the major portion of this book is devoted. The reader will find here illustrations of Geiger's viewpoint as he wrote to friends, as he delved into the origins of the Bible text, as he engaged in religious polemics, and as he addressed his own congregation, trying to draw them on to the principles for which he labored. 		1. Biography of Abraham Geiger
2. Letters
to Joseph Naftali Dernburg
to Various Correspondents
to Leopold Zunz: Reminiscences of Days Gone By
3. Excerpts from Geiger's Works
A General Introduction to the Science of Judaism
Reports of the Jewish Institute of Religious Instruction
Judaism and its History
The Original Text and Translations of the Bible
4. Sermons and Lead Articles
Sermons
Lead Articles
An Open Letter: On Renouncing Judaism
 
Published by Hebrew Union College Press

$16.95s paper / ISBN 0-87820-800-3

308 pages

1981 (1962 by the Jewish Publication Society of America)