Beschreibung:
Jacob Katz ( 1904-1998) is the author of From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933 and Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870.
Jacob Katz's landmark study of Jewish life in the High Middle Ages sheds new light on the origins of modernity, including Jewish-Gentile relations, the Jewish role in early capitalism, the beginnings of Haskala (Enlightenment) and of Hasidism.