Eminent social historian Jacob Katz examines the transformation of the Jewish community against the background of religious conflict in Central Europe. It is a story of fragmentation and polarization that sheds light on tensions within the 19th-century Jewish community in Central Europe as it struggled to respond to the promises and perils of modernization. As an historian, Katz is fully in charge -- controlling his sources, shaping them into meaningful patterns, and presenting them in such a way to as to illuminate their larger significance. -- Commentary

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Product Description: Now available in a new and updated translation, this landmark work recreates the fabric of daily life in the Jewish communities of medieval Europe--"a service to scholarship and public enlightenment" (Arthur Hertzberg). Katz is the author of Out of the Ghetto.

Product Description: This is an anthology of articles authored by Jacob Katz, most of which have been translated from his two volumes of collected studies in Hebrew Halakhah and Kabbala (1984) and Halakhah in Straits (1992). The focus of this collection is the Halakhah, the system of law that both molded Jewish life and was molded by it during the medieval period and, to a certain extent, in modern times...read more

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Product Description: A noted social historian views the first three quarters of the century through the lens of his own life.

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Product Description: From the Babylonian period to the twentieth century, strictly observant Jews have depended on a non-Jew, or “shabbes goy” to perform work that was forbidden on the Sabbath. The author traces the role of the “shabbes goy” through the centuries...read more

Product Description: Book by Katz, Jacob

Product Description: Now available in a new and updated translation, this landmark work recreates the fabric of daily life in the Jewish communities of medieval Europe--"a service to scholarship and public enlightenment" (Arthur Hertzberg). Katz is the author of Out of the Ghetto.

Product Description: Book by Katz, Jacob

Explores the social, political, and religious conditions that gave rise to the antisemitic movement and examines its growth and development in Germany, France, Austria, and Hungary

Explores the social, political, and religious conditions that gave rise to the antisemitic movement and examines its growth and development in Germany, France, Austria, and Hungary

Product Description: The author discusses the changes of attitude on the part of the Jews toward their non-Jewish environment from the middle ages to the Enlightenment. Most of the material has been drawn from the province of Ashkenazi Jewry-- the Jews of Germany and eastern Europe.