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How could a Jew kill a Jew for religious and political reasons? Many people asked this question after an Orthodox Jew assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Itshak Rabin in 1995. But historian Michael Stanislawski couldn't forget it, and he decided to find out everything he could about an obscure and much earlier event that was uncannily similar to Rabin's murder: the 1848 killing--by an Orthodox Jew--of the Reform rabbi of Lemberg (now L'viv, Ukraine). Eventually, Stanislawski concluded that this was the first murder of a Jewish leader by a Jew since antiquity, a prelude to twentieth-century assassinations of Jews by Jews, and a turning point in Jewish history. Based on records unavailable for decades, A Murder in Lemberg is the first book about this fascinating case. On September 6, 1848, Abraham Ber Pilpel entered the kitchen of Rabbi Abraham Kohn and his family and poured arsenic in the soup that was being prepared for their dinner. Within hours, the rabbi and his infant daughter were dead. Was Kohn's murder part of a conservative Jewish backlash to Jewish reform and liberalization in a year of European revolution? Or was he killed simply because he threatened taxes that enriched Lemberg's Orthodox leaders? Vividly recreating the dramatic story of the murder, the trial that followed, and the political and religious fallout of both, Stanislawski tries to answer these questions and others. In the process, he reveals the surprising diversity of Jewish life in mid-nineteenth-century eastern Europe. Far from being uniformly Orthodox, as is often assumed, there was a struggle between Orthodox and Reform Jews that was so intense that it might have led to murder.

Orthodox Judaism --- Jews --- Reform Judaism --- Jews --- Jews --- Relations --- Nontraditional Jews --- History --- Cultural assimilation --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Kohn, Abraham, --- Assassination. --- Lʹviv (Ukraine) --- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) --- Ethnic relations. --- History --- Aaron Chorin. --- Abraham Geiger. --- Abraham Kohn. --- Anti-Judaism. --- Antony Polonsky. --- Apostasy. --- Appellate court. --- Arson. --- Assassination. --- Bereavement in Judaism. --- Bernstein. --- Blood libel. --- Bohdan Khmelnytsky. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Bribery. --- Burial society. --- Capital punishment. --- Chabad. --- Chief Rabbi. --- Conservative Judaism. --- Culprit. --- Desecration. --- Dissolution of the Soviet Union. --- Duel. --- Ethnic cleansing. --- Excommunication. --- Fatherland (novel). --- First Partition of Poland. --- Galicia (Spain). --- Galician Jews. --- German literature. --- God of Abraham. --- Haganah. --- Hamburg Temple. --- Haredi Judaism. --- Haskalah. --- Hebraist. --- Hebrew school. --- Historian. --- Ivan Franko. --- Jacob Frank. --- Jewish Publication Society. --- Jewish Theological Seminary of America. --- Jewish emancipation. --- Jewish history. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- June Days uprising. --- Kashrut. --- Kosher tax (antisemitic canard). --- Kosher tax. --- Marc Bloch. --- Margolis. --- Martial law. --- Menachem Mendel Schneerson. --- Mishnah. --- Mishneh Torah. --- Moses Sofer. --- Mossad. --- Mourning. --- Mutilation. --- Napoleon. --- Napoleonic Wars. --- Nazi Party. --- Origins (Judge Dredd story). --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Orwellian. --- Partitions of Poland. --- Persecution. --- Pietism. --- Polish National Government (January Uprising). --- Polonization. --- Prosecutor. --- Prussia. --- Rabbi. --- Rashi. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religious war. --- Romanticism. --- Rubinstein. --- Ruthenians. --- Ruzhin (Hasidic dynasty). --- Salo Wittmayer Baron. --- Samson Raphael Hirsch. --- Samuel Holdheim. --- Second Intifada. --- Sedition. --- Serfdom. --- Soviet Empire. --- Stoning. --- Synagogue. --- Talmud Torah. --- Tax. --- Tefillin. --- Ukrainian State. --- Usury. --- World War II. --- Yiddish. --- Zionism.