"We Will Never Yield"

"David Meola's study breaks new ground in depicting how Jews in Baden used regional and national newspapers to contest Christian definitions of Judaism.  By showcasing the confidence with which Jews engaged liberals to reorient viewpoints about Jewish civic identity, Meola underscores the importance of the public sphere as a testing ground for entry into civil society. Scholars of European and Jewish history will benefit from the study's sharp focus on the 1840s, a decade that witnessed intense debates about the extent and limits of Jewish integration into German society."—James M. Brophy, Francis H. Squire Professor, University of Delaware

"With his focus on the mainstream Jewish press (as opposed to the German-Jewish press or treatises and pamphlets with a more limited audience) Meola makes several important interventions in the history of the struggle for legal emancipation and the study of Jewish self-representation in and around the 1840s."—Elizabeth Loentz, University of Illinois at Chicago