The present volume is the latest in a distinguished series, published under the auspices of the London Leo Baeck Institute, that addresses the issues of emancipation, assimilation and acculturation. It presents the work of an international group of scholars who approach these topics from a variety of innovative perspectives. The thread running through the diverse contributions, as indicated by the volume's title, is that of normality, clearly a close relation of emancipation and acculturation. Throughout the period from the Enlightenment to the 1930s, it can be argued that German-speaking Jews endeavoured to be like those around them, to become - in a (loaded) word - normal. While the term has not generally been employed by historians of European Jewry, the search for the normal can provide an interesting perspective from which to examine the diverse modes of German Jewish acculturation and integration, or lack thereof.Contributors:Peter Pulzer, Rainer Liedtke, David Rechter, Michael A. Meyer, Christhard Hoffmann, Johannes Hei, Christian Wiese, Deborah Hertz, Simone Lässig, Gregory A. Caplan, Lisa Swartout, Ulrich Sieg, Elisabeth Albanis, Keith H. Pickus, Robin Judd, Silvia Cresti, Helga Embacher, Tobias Brinkmann, and Mitchell B. Hart