"It was Islam that saved the Jewish people!" summarized the medievalist S. D. Goitein in 1958, reflecting on his insights from the long history of coexistence between Jews and Muslims. He meant not only the theological similarities of the two religions but also Islam as a protector of all things Jewish. He also included the scholarly engagement of Jewish theologians like Abraham Geiger with Islam. The Judaist Susannah Heschel explores these questions and examines the extent to which there is a specifically German-Jewish Orientalism and how the mutual attraction between Judaism and Islam can change our understanding of European Orientalism.