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A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry
A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry
by Jacob Katz translated by Ziporah Brody
University Press of New England, 2005 Cloth: 978-0-87451-796-5 | Paper: 978-1-58465-295-3 Library of Congress Classification BM376.H8K3813 1998 Dewey Decimal Classification 296.832094309034
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PAUL R. KATZ is a research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.