Book Summary
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.
Book Details
| Book Name | A House Divided: Orthodoxy And Schism In Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry |
| Author | Jacob Katz, Ziporah Brody |
| Publisher | Brandeis University Press (Jan 2005) |
| ISBN | 9781584652953 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1772 |