
A House Divided
Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry
Jacob Katz(Author)
Brandeis University Press
Will be published approx. on 9. February 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-58465-295-3 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58465-295-3 (9781584652953)
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PAUL R. KATZ is a research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.