From Frankfurt to Jerusalem: Isaac Breuer and the History of the Secession Dispute in Modern Jewish Orthodoxy (Studies in European Judaism, V. 6) [Hardcover]

Matthias Morgenstern (Author)

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Publication Date: January 2003 | Series: Studies in European Judaism, V. 6 (Book 6)

During the German "Kulturkampf" in the 1870s, the Frankfurt rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch enjoined all Jews to exercise a right given by Prussian law - to withdraw from the united community which was dominated by Reform forces in order to belong only to a separate Orthodox community, founded according to Jewish law (Halakha). This work investigates the significance of these events. It shows the genesis modern Jewish Orthodoxy and helps to understand its activities, in a new "Kulturkampf", in the state of Israel until the present.

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About the Author

Matthias Morgenstern is Lecturer for Hebrew at the University of Tübingen and is Lecturer for Jewish Studies at the University of Frankfurt/Main. He has published Kampf um den Staat. Religion und Nationalismus in Israel (Frankfurt am Main, 1990) and Theater und zionistischer Mythos. Eine Studie zum zeitgenössischen hebräischen Drama mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Werkes von Joshua Sobol

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004128387
• ISBN-13: 978-9004128385
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,666,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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