For scholars of Jewish/non-Jewish relations in the modern German (and Austrian) context these are truly exciting times. Until quite recently, the body of scholarship of genuine substance focusing on this topic could be quite easily surveyed. Each new monograph in the field was long awaited and treated as though it could reasonably be expected to resolve once and for all the perennial controversy between those who assume Jewish/non-Jewish relations in modern Germany and Austria, on balance, to have been either predominantly productive or consistently dysfunctional—between those, in other words, whom for brevity’s sake we might call “optimists” and “pessimists.” As demonstrated not least by the rich crop of publications under review here, the last decade or so has seen a veritable explosion of scholarship in this field, so much so that it is becoming increasingly difficult even for specialists to keep track. We are finally moving from a literature of individual stepping stones, as it were, toward a genuine critical mass of scholarship, and this process is facilitating a far-reaching refinement and differentiation in both methodology and content.