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Rabbis and revolution : the Jews of Moravia in the age of emancipation
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- Creator
- Michael Laurence Miller
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xv, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0804799717, 0804770565, 9780804776523, 9780804770569, 0804776520
- OCLC
- ocn714569458, on1198932078, ocn630479980
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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