FRIED, JOSEPH. Sepher Ohel Yoseph [responsa]

The First Work of Responsa Published in America by an American Rabbi. The responsa depict the economic, social and religious conditions of the Jews of New York at the beginning of the 20th-century. Addresses issues such as whether to allow Kohanim who were lax in their religious observance to recite the priestly blessings; the status of bread baked on the Sabbath in a bakery with Jewish employees; travel by ferry on the Sabbath; constructing a Sukah on a fire escape. The author served as Rabbi of New York’s Congregation Adath Jeshurun.