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Rabbis and revolution : the Jews of Moravia in the age of emancipation /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Michael Laurence (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011]
Colección:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From Premyslids to Habsburgs : Moravian Jewry in the "Land of Canaan"
  • Rabbinic enlightenment : Mordecai Benet and the Moravian Haskalah, 1789-1829
  • Nehemias Trebitsch and the decline of the Moravian chief rabbinate, 1832-1842
  • Locking antlers : Hirsch Fassel, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and the forging of a new rabbinical ideal
  • Conflict and revolution : Samson Raphael Hirsch and the politics of leadership, 1847-1849
  • On the altar of freedom : Moravian Jewry and the Revolution of 1848
  • Emancipation and its aftershocks : the reorganization of Moravian Jewry
  • Drifting rabbis, shifting centers, and the burgeoning Czech-German conflict.