Weinberger, Moses. Halacha LeMoshe [concerning the dismissal of ritual slaughterers who attempted to form a union]

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Lot 11
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Weinberger, Moses. Halacha LeMoshe [concerning the dismissal of ritual slaughterers who attempted to form a union]

FIRST EDITION. ff. (8), 3-37. A few stains. Contemporary cloth. 4to Goldman-Kinsberg, Hebrew Printing in America 1122

New York: Joel Aronson 1902

Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $200
Moses Weinberger, Rabbi of Beth HaMidrash Anshei Ungaren, was a most colorful rabbinic personality in New York at the turn of the 20th-century. For a biographical analysis, see J. Sarna, People Walk on their Heads: Moses Weinberger's Jews and Judaism in New York (1982); and S. Leiman, "Yeshivath Or ha-Chaim: The First Talmudical Academy in America? " in: Tradition, Vol. 25 (1990), No. 2, pp. 77-89.