Rabbi Marcus Lehmann and the Train to Berlin 2

A story from The Storyteller series by Nissan Mindel inspires this historical fiction.
It's 1800s Mainz, Germany, where religious Jews are pressured to live under the authority of liberal Jews who reject Maamad Har Sinai and the observance of the Torah Laws. Rabbi Marcus Lehmann petitions the Education Minister of Berlin to officially recognize an independent Orthodox community. But everything hinges on one thing—a sudden critical debate with the leader of the reform movement.

Rabbi Lehmann was successful in Mainz, getting official recognition in 1877