Notes to Chapter 3 { 305suggest (ibid.) Heine might have in mind seems plausible. Thus, if Heine is remembering
a comment by Hegel, it must have been made orally, a possibility the editors also entertain.
44. Wolf, “On the Concept of a Science of Judaism,” 150 – 51 ; and “Über den Begriff,”
14 – 15.
45. Since Wolf makes no direct mention of Hegel, although his essay is deeply indebted
to Hegelian concepts about historical periods and progress and the nature of science, one
could counter that his lack of attribution of this remark to Hegel is consistent with the silent
presence of Hegel throughout. There is a difference, however, between a pervasive debt to a
Hegelian conceptual framework and a paraphrase of a specific remark.
46. Heine, DHA, 14 (part 1 ): 94.
47. Ibid., 90.
48. Hegel’s insistence on the circularity of his system and of all truly scientific thought
(the endpoint is already inherent in the commencement) makes Wolf ’s move possible, even
if it is not one Hegel would endorse.
49. Wolf, “On the Concept of a Science of Judaism,” 154 ; and “Über den Begriff,” 24.
50. Gans assumed the Verein’s presidency provisionally after its first president, Joel
Abraham List, left Berlin in March 1821. The last three of Gans’s presidential addresses were
each published shortly after they were delivered and have been republished twice since,
first in Salman Rubaschoff, “Erstlinge der Entjudung,” and more recently as Gans, “Erste
Rede vor dem ‘Kulturverein,” “Zweite Rede vor dem ‘Kulturverein,” and “Dritte Rede vor
dem ‘Kulturverein.’” Part of the second of these three speeches by Gans has also been pub-
lished as Gans, “A Society to Further Jewish Integration ( 1822 ).” Because only these three
addresses—of October 28 , 1821 , April 28 , 1822 , and May 4 , 1823 —have been published,
they are often referred to (as in Waszek’s edited volume) as Gans’s first, second, and third
presidential addresses. The earlier addresses to which I refer are available in an anonymous
typescript, “Transkription einiger Dokumente aus ARC 4 792 /B 11 ” (ARC 4 ° 792 /B 11 – 32 ,
Archive of the “Association for the Culture and Science of the Jews,” Zunz Archive, National
Library of Israel, Jerusalem [henceforth Zunz Archive]). It is a transcription of documents
ARC 4 ° 792 /B 11 – 2 through 6 ; ARC 4 ° 792 /B 11 – 2 , 5 , and 6 are Gans’s addresses, respectively,
of March 11 , 1820 , November 2 , 1820 , and April 1 , 1821.
51. On Gans’s efforts to pursue an academic career in the early 1820 s, see Hanns Reiss-
ner, Eduard Gans, 46 – 117 , and Monica Richarz, Der Eintritt der Juden in die akademischen
Berufe, 206 – 10. For a sketch in English of Gans’s life and intellectual development, see Nor-
bert Waszek, “Eduard Gans on Poverty and on the Constitutional Debate,” 24–32.
52. Norbert Waszek (“Vorwort,” 16 ) notes that the Edict Concerning the Civil Status of
the Jews in the Prussian State of March 11 , 1812, allowed Jews to hold academic appoint-
ments but not other state offices. Since members of the law faculty could be called on to
serve as appellate judges, whether or not a Jew could be appointed to the law faculty required
clarification.
53. Terry Pinkard, Hegel, 532.
54. On the relationship between Gans’s attempt to gain an academic appointment with-
out converting and his involvement in the Verein, Ismar Schorsch writes: “As his personal
campaign dragged on, the cause of the Verein offered Gans consolation, sublimation, and an
instrument of battle” (From Text to Context [hereafter TC], 208 ). Gans’s oppositional stance
(and Isaak Jost’s deep dislike of Gans) are clear in Jost’s claim that the restriction of Jewish