Acknowledgements
We cannot conclude this introduction without thanking our sponsors: the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society (Haifa) and its coordinator, Mr Amir Bar-On, who made the November 2019 conference in Haifa possible through his diligent work and administrative skills; the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Haifa; and the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (generously funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemein- schaft), especially Katharine Handel for her superlative language editing, Dr Sarah Wobick-Segev for her outstanding editorial work, and Professor Giuseppe Veltri, who generously supported our initiative from the very beginning and welcomed this volume into the prestigious “Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion” series. We are deeply thankful for their support and encouragement.