A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry

ISBN-13: 9781584652953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str.

Jacob Katz

Opis

Eminent social historian Jacob Katz examines the rise and transformation of Jewish communal leadership in Central Europe. It is a story of fragmentation and polarization that sheds light on the tensions within the 19th-century Jewish community in Central Europe as it struggled to respond to the promises and perils of modernization.