A critical introduction / Sarah Wobick-Segev -- Introduction: the "Third Force" -- Culture, civilization, and German anti-Semitism -- The image of the Jew in German popular literature: Felix Dahn and Gustav Freytag -- The influence of the Volkish idea on German Jewry -- The corporate state and the conservative revolution in Weimar Germany -- Fascism and the intellectuals -- Left-wing intellectuals in the Weimar Republic.