sentences:  David Sorkin's "The Transformation of German Jewry 1780-1840" assesses what should have been an immensely successful integration process given the Jewish population's great societal contributions as they adopted German secular culture and the bourgeois ideal of individualism known as Bildung.Instead, a separate German-Jewish subculture developed while emancipation lagged.Sorkin depicts the fruitless attempts of the Jews to be tolerated as no level of self-denial would ultimately prove acceptable to their counterparts.