Tradition and Crisis YBL Drawing on thirty years of

Drawing on thirty years of professional experience and detailed research

achievement

Should we allow plundered artefacts to rest where they lie - often residing there by the imbalances of history

and physical discomfort

this new edition has been revised and enhanced with current research

Tradition and Crisis YBL Drawing on thirty years of"An acknowledged classic. Katz has transformed our conception of Jewish history from the 16th to the 18th century. Because of his work, we now understand that the ghetto was no longer sealed off at that time from outside opinions and that the movement towards modernity had begun long before the Jews were actually legally emancipated. Making this work available again in the revised edition is a service to scholarship and to public enlightenment."