Tradition and Crisis - Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages

Jacob Katz's landmark study of Jewish life in the High Middle Ages sheds new light on the origins of modernity, including Jewish-Gentile relations, the Jewish role in early capitalism, the beginnings of Haskala (Enlightenment) and of Hasidism.

About the author

Jacob Katz ( 1904-1998) is the author of From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933 and Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870.

Summary

A new edition of Katz's study of European Jewish society at end of the Middle Ages. It taps into a rich source, the "responsa" literature of the Rabbinic establishment of the time, a time when self-governing communities of Jews dealt with their own civil and religious issues.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Dov Cooperman, Jacob Katz
• Assisted by: Bernard Dov Cooperman (Translation)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2000
• EAN: 9780815628279
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-2827-9
• No. of pages: 410
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 238 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Medieval Studies; Medieval Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous