A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry (Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) - Softcover

Katz, Jacob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1584652950 ISBN 13: 9781584652953

Publisher: Brandeis University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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"As a historian, Katz is fully in charge controlling his sources, shaping them into meaningful patterns, and presenting them in such a way as to illuminate their larger significance." Commentary"

"As a historian, Katz is fully in charge - controlling his sources, shaping them into meaningful patterns, and presenting them in such a way as to illuminate their larger significance." --Commentary

As a historian, Katz is fully in charge - controlling his sources, shaping them into meaningful patterns, and presenting them in such a way as to illuminate their larger significance.-- "Commentary"

About the Author:

PAUL R. KATZ is a research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1584652950
• ISBN 13: 9781584652953
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352