A Window on Their World: The Court Diaries of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim Frankfurt Am Main, 1773-1794

by Edward Fram and Hayyim Gundersheim

From a manuscript that was lost for more than half a century comes new information about one of the greatest Jewish communities of all time. The court diaries of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim (d. 1795), a member of the rabbinic court of late eighteenth-century Frankfurt, sheds light on daily life in the Judengasse("Jewish lane"), home to over 3,000 people, including Meyer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the famous banking family. Familial quarrels, squabbles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878202536
• ISBN13: 9780878202539
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.4" x 10.1"