Description 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.
About the Author PAUL R.
KATZ is a research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Brandeis University Press A house divided: orthodoxy and schism in nineteenth-century central european jewry/jacob katz
