Scholar-in-Residence Dinner – Sturgeon and Swordfish: The Fish that Nearly Divided the Jewish World

How did a local squabble over whether or not sturgeon is kosher escalate into a public dispute that enveloped Jews at the turn of the nineteenth century in Central and Eastern Europe? What does this conflict tell us about the tension in Judaism between tradition and innovation?

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