A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry)

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.