 In 1935 Strauss had published his second book, Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and his Predecessors. Here too the political realities within which he was living overlapped with his scholarly pursuits. At the urging of Gershom Scholem, Strauss turned three separate essays on Maimonides into a book. Scholem and Strauss hoped that the publication of Philosophy and Law would help Strauss to get a position in medieval Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Strauss did not receive the position, which went instead to Julius Guttmann, Strauss’s supervisor at the Academy for the Science of Judaism and a primary target of critique in Philosophy and Law.