About the Author

Michael A. Meyer is the Adolph S. Ochs professor of Jewish History at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati. He is the author of The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824 (Wayne State University Press, 1967), Jewish Identity in the Modern World (University of Washington Press, 1990), and Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism (Wayne State University Press, 1994), which won the National Jewish Book Award in the area of Jewish history.

Reviews

Meyer exhibits immense breadth and complete mastery of the modern Jewish experience in Europe and America. . . There are gems to be found here.-- "Religious Studies Review"