Jack Wertheimer, Joseph and Martha Mendelson Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Archives of Conservative Judaism, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
"With arresting scholarship, Wertheimer has written a first-class analysis of the German and German-Jewish reception of East European Jews immigrating to Germany, 1871-1914...Replete with much new historical data, this compelling work is social history at its best; it is the best book on the subject. Essential for historians and students of history." - Library Journal