The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry

Jacob Katz

Cover of "A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry"An eminent social historian examines the rise and transformation of Jewish communal leadership in Central Europe.

His story of fragmentation and polarization sheds light on the tensions within the Jewish community as it struggled to respond to modernization.