Jacob Katz
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Jacob Katz (1904-1998) was a Jewish historian in Israel who established the history curriculum used in Israel's High Schools. He specialized in Jewish-gentile relations, the Jewish enlightenment, or Haskalah, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust. His works in Hebrew provide much of the basis for scholarly analyses of anti-Semitism.[1]
Katz described "traditional society" and deployed sociological methods in his study of Jewish communities, with special attention to changes in halakhah (Jewish law) and Orthodoxy. He pioneered the modern study of Orthodoxy and its formation in reaction to Reform Judaism.
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[edit] External links
- Brief biography at Jacobkatz.co.il and a bibliography of more than 300 works [1]
[edit] Books
- Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages
- From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933
- Exclusiveness and Tolerance: Studies in Jewish-Gentile Relations in Medieval and Modern Times
- The Darker Side of Genius
- Outside of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870
- The "Shabbes Goy"
- A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry
