Author: Ismar Schorsch
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812248538
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In 1818, with a single essay of vast scope and stunning detail, Leopold Zunz launched the turn to history in modern Judaism. In Leopold Zunz: Creativity in Adversity, Ismar Schorsch, a distinguished scholar of German Jewish culture, has written the first full-fledged biography of this remarkable man.