Andrew Handler

Preface - For more than three thousand years Jews lived two parallel lives. One was the life of religion that provided the comforting feelings of brotherhood and stability, continuity and familiarity. The other was life in the secular world. It tested and tested again the will of the Jews to...

Introduction On October 4, 1877 a historic event in the annals of Hungarian Jewry took place in Budapest. In the presence of the members of the Hungarian parliament and government (including the Speaker of the Upper House) and representatives of rabbinical seminaries and institutions of higher...