Rabbis and revolution
Subtitle: the Jews of Moravia in the age of emancipation
By: Michael Laurence Miller
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture; Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Standford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780804770569
Description: Drawing on archives in the Czech Republic, Austria, Israel, and the United States, this book takes a comparative approach examining the distinctiveness of Moravian Jewry so as to shed light on the religious, ideological, political, and socioeconomic challenges that transformed Central European Jewry as a whole.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Premyslids to Habsburgs : Moravian Jewry in the "Land of Canaan"; title: Rabbinic enlightenment : Mordechai Benet and the Moravian Haskalah, 1789-1829; title: Nehemias Trebitsch and the decline of the Moravian chief rabbinate, 1832-1842; title: Locking antlers : Hirsch Fassel, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and the forging of a new rabbinical ideal; title: Conflict and revolution : Samson Raphael Hirsch and the politics of leadership, 1847-1849; title: On the altar of freedom : Moravian Jewry and the Revolution of 1848; title: Emancipation and its aftershocks : the reorganization of Moravian Jewry; title: Drifting rabbis, shifting centers, and the burgeoning Czech-German conflict.