Editorial

Abstract

It is a privilege to welcome as guest editor of this issue Dr Cornelia Wilhelm, Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the Historical Seminar of Ludwig-Maximilians Universität-München. Our collaboration goes back to a conference organised by Tobias Grill and Dr Wilhelm in Tutzing, Germany, in October 2009. The theme was ‘German Rabbis Abroad’, and they gave the introductory lecture on ‘German Rabbis Abroad as Cultural Agents?’ I contributed a paper on ‘Rabbi Dr Werner Van der Zyl and the Creation of Leo Baeck College. The German Rabbinate Abroad: Transferring German Jewish Modernity Into the World?’ The organisers agreed to edit the proceedings of the conference for publication in this journal. At the time they noted that