Michael P. Steinberg is the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and Professor of Music and German Studies at Brown University. His recent books include The Trouble with Wagner (2018) and the coedited volume Makers of Jewish Modernity (2016), which won the National Jewish Book Award for nonfiction.

Introduction: Introduction
1. Moses and Modernism
2. Under Lincoln's Eyes
3. Hannah Arendt Crosses the Atlantic
4. Yaron Ezrahi: Democracy and the Post-Epic Nation