Examines the perplexing issues and polemics surrounding the recent reconsideration of the Jewish-German synthesis. In wide-ranging essays, the contributors explore the ways in which contemporary German culture and society reflect the intellectual achievements of Jewish-German critical thought during the Wilhelminian and Weimar epoch, while perpetuating anti-Semitic currents in social institutions, daily life. and politics-from the pro-Arab views of the New Left to nationalistic aspirations of the Right.