HARVARD UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES

The Pride of Jacob

Essays on Jacob Katz and His Work

Edited by Jay M. Harris

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Publication Date: 05/15/2002

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Preface [Jay M. Harris]
Rebel in Frankfurt: The Scholarly Origins of Jacob Katz [David N. Myers]
Jacob Katz on Kalakhah and Kabbalah [Israel Ta-Shma]
Jacob Katz on Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages [David Berger]
Early Modern Ashkenaz in the Writings of Jacob Katx [Elisheva Carlebach]
Jacob Katz as Social Historian [Paula E. Hyman]
Jacob Katz on the Origins and Dimensions of Jewish Modernity: The Centrality of the German Experience [David Ellenson]
How Central Was Anti-Semitism to the Historical Writing of Jacob Katz? [Richard I. Cohen]
A Hungarian Rhapsody in Blue: Jacob Katz’s Tardy Surrender to Hagar’s Allur [Michael K. Silber]
Jacob Katz on Halakhah, Orthodoxy, and History [Moshe Halbertal]
Jacob Katz as a Dissertation Advisor [Immanuel Etkes]

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