Download or read book Tradition and Crisis written by Jacob Katz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Katz's study of European Jewish society at end of the Middle Ages. It taps into a rich source, the responsa literature of the Rabbinic establishment of the time, a time when self-governing communities of Jews dealt with their own civil and religious issues.