From Frankfurt to Jerusalem: Isaac Breuer and the History of the Secession Dispute in Modern Jewish Orthodoxy

by Matthias Morgenstern and Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

During the German "Kulturkampf" in the 1870s, the Frankfurt rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch enjoined all Jews of his community 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 for Orthodox Judaism in the 20th century. Focussing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004128387
• ISBN13: 9789004128385
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.5"