Notes
Prior to 1919, when Bratislava acquired its current name, this city in NW Hungary was called Pozsony (Hungarian) or Pressburg (German). In this review, I use the name Pressburg, since it is more widespread in Jewish historiography.
Jacob Katz, A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry, translated by Ziporah Brody (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1988); Michael Silber, ‘The Emergence of Ultra-Orthodoxy: the Invention of a Tradition’, in Jack Wertheimer (ed.), The Uses of Tradition (New York, Jerusalem: JTS, 1992), 23–84.