The essay Deutsch-jüdischer Parnaß by then-unknown Moritz Goldstein (1880–1977), which appeared in the cultural journal Kunstwart in 1912, triggered a wide-ranging discussion of the situation of Jews in Germany. According to the central statement of the text: “We Jews manage the intellectual property of a people that denies us the authority and ability to do so.” The debate in Kunstwart was early evidence for the failure of Jewish assimilation and a clear indicator of the critical changes in the self-understanding of German Jews, especially in light of the…