Author

Publication

1998 - University Press, Hanover, NH, New Hampshire

Language

English

Word Count

84,750 words, Guess

Page Count

339 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads3557543
  • LibraryThing2595479

Classifications

  • DDC296.8/32/094309034
  • LCCBM376.H8 K3813 1998

Description

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

Subjects

Topics

HistoryRelationsJews, europeOrthodox JudaismNontraditional JewsOrthodox Judaism -- Relations -- Nontraditional JewsOrthodox Judaism -- Hungary -- History -- 19th century

Times

Series Statement

  • The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series ;

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