Jonathan Horovicz. Der Erste Allgemeine Rabbiner-Kongress zu Krakau.

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(AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE).

Jonathan Horovicz. Der Erste Allgemeine Rabbiner-Kongress zu Krakau.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> German with smattering of Hebrew. pp. 47, (1). Brittle. Original printed wrappers, detached. 4to.

Also-Kubin (Hungary): (1903)

Est: $100 - $150
An account of the first World-wide Conference of Orthodox Rabbis. It was organized a full nine years before the Agudath Yisroel came into being in Katowitz. Concerning this convocation and its relative strengths and weaknesses, see Gershon Bacon, "The Rabbinical Conference in Krakow (1903) and the Beginnings of Organized Orthodox Jewry" in: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Eastern European Jewry, Presented to Immanuel Etkes (2009) pp. 199-225.