This is the story of the Phillipsons, caught up in the tide of the Reform movement which swept through central European Jewry in the nineteenth century, and the Ruhdorfs, deeply attached to the Torah-true religion of their ancestors. The paths of these two families cross again and again, as Mr. Phillipson deliberately abandons his heritage while making his way into modern society – causing great financial hardship to Mr. Ruhdorf in the process.
Two fathers, two families, and two paths – interwoven and crossing, being destroyed and being rebuilt, leaning to downfall and leading to triumph – against the background of a complicated time when the battle for Jewish hearts and minds was being sorely fought.
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This is the story of the Phillipsons, caught up in the tide of the Reform movement which swept through central European Jewry in the nineteenth century, and the Ruhdorfs, deeply attached to the Torah-true religion of their ancestors. The paths of these two families cross again and again, as Mr. Phillipson deliberately abandons his heritage while making his way into modern society – causing great financial hardship to Mr. Ruhdorf in the process.
Two fathers, two families, and two paths – interwoven and crossing, being destroyed and being rebuilt, leaning to downfall and leading to triumph – against the background of a complicated time when the battle for Jewish hearts and minds was being sorely fought.
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