At Eden’s Door: The Habsburg Jewish Life of Leon Kellner (1859-1928) - The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Yet for all this, today he is little known. How did someone born into a lower-middle-class Orthodox Jewish family from the province of Galicia come to gain such prominence in the Habsburg empire? Kellner’s world was destroyed twice over: Habsburg Austria came to an end in 1918, east-central European Jewry in 1945.