Most readers will finish this work with a renewed appreciation of the continuing significance of the moral vision articulated by these exemplars of liberal Judaism. · Choice
this work is a fascinating revisionist intellectual history of its two key authors and of Judaism in the twentieth century, and one rich in avenues for further research. · American Historical Review
an important [ book], overflowing with worthwhile ideas and based upon good reading and research Curthoys main theme is succinctly expressed and painfully relevant. · European Judaism
The book then provides various interesting challenges to scholarship on Arendt, as well as the material on thinkers brought together here as part of the tradition of Liberal Judaism. All this make The Legacy of Liberal Judaism of relevance beyond an exclusively scholarly debate. · Patterns of Prejudice
This is an important fresh look at modern intellectual history at the interface of philosophy and Jewish thought. It has a persuasive line of argument and illuminating discussions of the subject. It adds a crucial strand to the weave of modern intellectual history and argues that, unless close attention is paid to the dimension of Jewish thought in this project, this history remains misunderstood. · Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto
This is a very sharp and insightful intellectual history of the relationship between Liberal Judaism, a world view that stressed Enlightenment rationalism and universalism, along with ethical monotheism, and two important twentieth century German thinkers, Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt. · Richard H. King, Nottingham University
