num_pages: 352
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.
language: English
title: A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry
titlecomplete: A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Brandeis University Press