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Much has been written about the German approach to studying Jewish texts known as Wissenschaft des Judentums since its inception almost two hundred years ago. From Max Weber’s lecture in 1918 about Wissenschaft as a calling or a profession through Alexander Altmann’s 1957 lecture “Jewish Studies: Their Scope and Meaning Today,” which characterizes its impulses as contradictory (e.g. studying Jewish texts objectively while also engaging in apologetics), to Paul Mendes-Flohr’s discussion of Weber and Altmann's work and overview of some major tenets of Wissenschaft des Judentums in his article, “Jewish Scholarship as Vocation” in Perspectives on Jewish Thought and Mysticism (Eds. Alfred L. Ivry et al.; London: Taylor and Francis, 1994, 33-48), generations of Anglophone readers have had ample access to insightful scholarly work on Wissenschaft des Judentums. The publishing house De Gruyter has also brought out such informative volumes on the subject as Gershom Scholem, die Wissenschaft des Judentums und der 'Ort' des Historikers ['Gershom Scholem, the Science of Judaism and the 'Place' of the Historian'] (2001), Jewish Existence in the Modern Age: Abraham Geiger and the Science of Judaism (2013), Aron Freimann und die Wissenschaft des Judentums (2014) and is scheduled to publish a volume entitled Wissenschaft des Judentums in Europe Comparative and Transnational Perspectives in 2020. Before the present volume, little had appeared in English about Hungarian contributions to Wissenschaft des Judentums. For example, Raphael Patai’s Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology (Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, 1996) offers brief biographical sketches of some Hungarian-Jewish practitioners (398-402). While much critical work has been done on the Budapest Rabbinical Seminary, mostly in Hungarian and some in English (see Kinga Frojimovics’s “Teachers and Students: The Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest and the Neolog Jewish Legacy in Hungary” in From Breslau to Jerusalem Rabbinical Seminaries: Past, Present, and Future, ed. Guy Miron; Jerusalem: The Schechter Institute, 2009 [Hebrew]), nothing definitive has appeared in English on the subject until now. Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary, edited by Tamás Turán and Carsten Wilke, not only provides wide contours in some areas of nineteenth-century Hungarian-Jewish scholarship but also some detailed biographical and scholarly sketches.

Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary: The ‚Science of Judaism‘ between East and West