Who are Ernest and Moritz?

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1. Where can I find out who Ernest and Moritz are and what their suggestion regarding Jews was? I have exhausted all of my searches and have reached a dead end.
The first source is from an annotated bibliography, which included Moritz Steinschneider and Ludwig Ernst (spelled different than Ernest though). I will include this information.
Second, there was another hit from the Jewish Encyclopedia (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com) that had information on two different men, that I also included below:

a. HESS, MOSES (MORITZ), a Jewish socialist and nationalist, which is perhaps the man that you are looking for.
b. RENAN, JOSEPH ERNEST: devoted himself for the rest of his life to a history of the people of Israel in five volumes, the last two, published posthumously, bringing it down to the common era and thus connecting it with his other series.

1. Moritz Steinschneider and Ludwig Ernst

In an annodated bibliography under the title Zionism, I located the some information on the views of Ernst (Ernest???) and Moritz.

Briefly, both men are concerned about the topic of Zionism. Moritz argues that the Jews remained faithful to "the Land of Isreal," meaning that even though the Jews were exiled and dispersed from their homeland, the Jewish consciousness remained. Ernst, on the other hand, argued that since the Jews were an integral part of Europe, their primary duty was to unite and fight for their rights and for universal justice, rather than to abandon the struggle and concentrate their efforts in the Zionist cause. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/excat/rosenberger/Modern.html. In other words, Moritz

Examples: Annotaded bibiography(excerpts)

106. Moritz Steinschneider. Juices Schriften zur Geographie Palästina's. Jerusalem: A. M..Luncz, 1892. One of fifty copies.

Throughout the centuries of exile and dispersion, Eretz Israel, "the Land of Israel," remained deeply ingrained in the Jewish consciousness. While largescale repatriation seemed beyond reach, the Jews nevertheless maintained a keen interest in their historic homeland, as evidenced by this bibliography of Jewish writings concerning Palestine. Compiled by Moritz Steinschneider, an exponent of the "science of Judaism" and one of the most important bibliographers of Judaica, the work lists and characterizes travelers' accounts and geographical descriptions by Jewish authors from the ninth through the nineteenth centuries.

111. Ludwig Ernst. Kein Judenstaat sonders Gewissenfreiheit. Leipzig and Vienna: Literarische Anstalt, 1896.
Herzl's scheme was clearly at odds with the dominant liberal doctrines of emancipation and assimilation. Thus it is not surprising that Der Judenstaat aroused a good deal of hostile criticism. Ernst's No Jewish State-Rather Freedom of Conscience is an example of the debates within Jewish communities that Zionist ideas evoked. Ernst maintained that since the Jews were an integral part of Europe, their primary duty was to unite and fight for their rights and for universal justice, rather than to abandon the struggle and concentrate their efforts in the Zionist ...