“The essays in this collection are virtuoso performances demonstrating how Scott Spector's radical textual method could be applied to a range of controversial intellectuals. There is, of course, a vast body of interpretation surrounding these figures, and it is a credit to Spector's erudition, originality and synthetic abilities that he nevertheless has something new to say about them.”
 — Mary Gluck, author of Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

“Scott Spector has been advocating for a subject-based understanding of German-Jewish modernity throughout his distinguished career. This book brings this work together and culminates in a new and compelling approach to this much-studied topic.”
 — Todd Herzog, author of Crime Stories: Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany

“Highly recommended.”
 — Choice

“Spector’s book is required reading for all students of modernism and the German-Jewish contribution to this fraught moment in European history.”
 — Reading Religion