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

By Jacob Katz

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805203168
• ISBN13: 9780805203165
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Incomplete

This is, unfortunately, the only book of Jewish Medieval thought for the secular reader, that I know of. As such, it's a valuable source, but it's incomplete.

A small classic

This study of Jewish life at the end of the Middle Ages was when it was first published in the early sixties considered a breakthrough work. The late Yaakov Katz was for many decades one of the outstanding students of Jewish social life. This work is a model of clarity in both conception and writing.