Leopold Zunz was the founder of academic Judaic Studies, the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual. Zunz's historical investigations and contemporary writings had an import
Portrait by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Leopold Zunz on his 90th birthday, 10 August 1884
First edition of Namen der Juden, 1837, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland
Saul Ascher was a German writer, translator and bookseller.
Illustration by C. E. Brock for The Ghost of Dr. Ascher as depicted in The humour of Germany (1909)