Das Projekt, dessen Ergebnisse hier dokumentiert werden, begann 1995 auf Anregung des damaligen Chefs des Londoner Leo-Baeck-Instituts, Mosse. In komparativer Perspektive sollten die jüdischen Erfahrungen in Deutschland und England untersucht werden. Auf Konferenzen 1996/97 wurden die Ergebnisse präsentiert, die kombiniert die erste vergleichende Gesamtuntersuchung der Thematik zwischen dem späten 18. Jahrhundert und den 1930er Jahren anbieten. Inhalt: David Ruderman: Was There an English Parallel to the German Haskalah? (15-44); Andreas Gotzmann: Jewish Enlighteners and Jewish Enlightenment: A Comment on David B. Ruderman (45-48); Reinhard Rürup: Jewish Emancipation in Britain and Germany (49-61); David Cesarani: Jewish Emancipation: From Teleology to a Comparative Perspective: A Comment on Reinhard Rürup (63-66); Michael A. Meyer: Jewish Religious Reform in Germany and Britain (67-83); Hugh McLeod: Why did Orthodoxy remain dominant in Britain? A Comment on Michael A. Meyer (85-89); Tony Kushner: Comparing Antisemitisms: A Useful Exercise? (91-109); Till van Rahden: In Defence of Differences: A Comment on Tony Kushner (111-115); Lloyd P. Gartner: East European Jewish Migration: Germany and Britain (117-133); Trude Maurer: Changing Condition, Changing Responses: A Long-Term Perspective on Immigrant and Native Jews: A Comment on Lloyd P. Gartner (135-139); David Feldman: Jews and the State in Britain (141-161); Christopher Clark: The Jews and the German State in the Wilhelmine Era (163-184); Christhard Hoffmann: Boundaries of Citizenship: A Comment on David Feldman and Christopher Clark (185-192); Stephan Wendehorst: Zionism in Britain and Germany: A Comparison (193-218); David Rechter: Looking East: Comparing German and British Zionism: A Comment on Stephan Wendehorst (219-222); Edgar Feuchtwanger: The Jewishness of Conservative Politicians: Disraeli and Stahl (223-239); John Breuilly: The Context of Nineteenth-Century English and Prussian Conservatism: A Comment on Edgar Feuchtwanger (241-245); Rainer Liedtke: Integration and Separation: Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester in the Nineteenth Century (247-271); Gunnar Svante Paulsson: The Eastern Jews and Jewish Welfare: A Comment on Rainer Liedtke (273-278); Youssef Cassis: Aspects of the Jewish Business Elite in Britain and Germany (279-289); Avraham Barkai: Elites and Communities: A Comment on Youssef Cassis (291-293); Niall Ferguson: "The Caucasian Royal Family": The Rothschilds in National Contexts (295-325); Wolfgang J. Mommsen: The Social Acceptability of Jews in Germany, Austria und Great Britain: A Comment on Niall Ferguson (327-330); Todd M. Endelman: Jewish Self-Hatred in Britain and Germany (331-363); Paul Mendes-Flohr: Jewish Self-Hatred and the Dialectics of Assimilation: A Comment on Todd M. Endelman (365-369); Susan L. Tananbaum: Jewish Feminist Organisations in Britain and Germany at the Turn of the Century (371-392); Paul Weindling: Jews in the Medical Profession in Britain and Germany: Problems of Comparison (393-405); Peter Alter: The "Modern" Jewish Doctor: A Comment on Paul Weindling (407-409); Ritchie Robertson: The Representation of Jews in British and German Literature: A Comparison (411-441); Edward Timms: The "Enemy Within" and the "All-Purpose Foreigner": A Comment on Ritchie Robertson (443-449); Helga Krohn: Jewish Culture in the Show Case: Preserving Jewish Culture and History in Germany (451-465); Bill Williams: Rescuing the Angelo-Jewish Heritage: The Manchester Experience (467-477); Gerhard Hirschfeld: The Heritage of Jewish Culture: A Comment on Helga Krohn and Bill Williams (479-483); Bernd Weisbrod: British Jews, German Jews: Civic Culture vs. Civil Service Culture (485-495).