Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)
"The bookRabbis and Revolutionis revolutionary because Miller takes an innovative view in the study of Moravian Jewish history. He doesn't view the history of Moravian Jewry through the lens of individual Jewish communities, but tries to view it as a cohesive whole. . . . I believe that Czech historians will step forward, inspired by Miller's approach, and alongside describing the history of individual communities, will also examine phenomena that span all of these communities."—Czech Historical Review"The book certainly is the most coherent account of Jewish history in Moravia up to the second half of the nineteenth century . . . Miller's book is not only a milestone in the historiography of Jewish Moravia, but an important contribution to Central European or Habsburg Jewish history."—Michal Frankl,East European Jewish Affairs"It is a fascinating story, told by Miller with great erudition and much sympathy for the ability of Moravia's rabbinical leaders to steer their community through the shoals of modernization under conditions that combined great autonomy with the continuing oppressive burden of the Familiants Laws."—Shlomo Avineri,Jewish Review of Books"This fine book has thus laid a solid foundation and incorporated Moravian Jewry into the growing tapestry of regional narratives that comprise modern Jewish historiography"—Howard Lupovitch,Journal of Modern History"Miller's dogged efforts to put Moravian Jewry on the map by drawing on an impressive array of archival sources and periodicals cannot be ignored. If we are left wondering at the enormous effort expended resurrecting such peripheral or ephemerally Moravian figures, Miller's rigorous scholarship does reveal Moravia as a major incubator of the rest of Central European Jewry's religious, scholarly, and educational leaders."—Glenn Dynner,Austrian History Yearbook