Title: A house divided
Description: Eminent social historian Jacob Katz examines the rise and transformation of Jewish communal leadership in Central Europe. His book is a story of fragmentation and polarization that sheds light on the tensions within the nineteenth-century Jewish community in Central Europe as it struggled to respond to the promises and perils of modernization.
Subjects: Orthodox Judaism, Nontraditional Jews, Relations, History, Jews, europe
Places: Hungary, Germany
Time periods: 19th century