Originally published in the Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 13 (1972), pp. 1002-6. In Modern Times (From the Beginning of the 19th Century). THE MODERN SERMON. Part of the aim of Zunz’s most famous work, Gottesdienstliche Vortraege der Juden (1832), was to demonstrate, when this was challenged by the Prussian government (under the influence of Orthodox groups who saw…