Rabbis and revolution

Miller, Michael Laurence.

Rabbis and revolution the Jews of Moravia in the age of emancipation / [electronic resource] : Michael Laurence Miller. - Standford, California : Stanford University Press, 2011. - xv, 464 p. : ill., maps. - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture . - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Premyslids to Habsburgs : Moravian Jewry in the "Land of Canaan" -- Rabbinic enlightenment : Mordechai 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.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2011.
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Jews--History--Czech Republic--Moravia--19th century.
Judaism--History--Czech Republic--Moravia--19th century.


Moravia (Czech Republic)--Ethnic relations--Political aspects--History--19th century.
Austria--History--Influence.--Revolution, 1848-1849


Electronic books.

DS135.C96 / M665 2011eb

943.72/004924