Klein, Shalom. Ein Offenem…Schreiben…Meine Yiddeshe Brider…Gegenshtick Der Neier Party [”Open Letter to my Brethren Against the Formation of the New (Reform) Party.”]

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 259
(REFORM JUDAISM).

Klein, Shalom. Ein Offenem…Schreiben…Meine Yiddeshe Brider…Gegenshtick Der Neier Party [”Open Letter to my Brethren Against the Formation of the New (Reform) Party.”]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Yiddish text. pp. 16. Two tiny marginal wormholes. Unbound. 8vo. Not in Friedberg.

Ofen: Universal Buchdruckerei 1868

Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $150
A scarce attack published by Samson Krausz of Korosz Ladani for the Shomrei Ha-Dath organization against the Reform movement in Hungary. The battle between the Orthodox and Neolog (Reform) elements within Hungarian Jewry had reached a climax by 1868. In that year, the government convened the General Jewish Congress and the polemics between the Orthodox and the Reform became the central issue. The outcome was the formal division of Hungarian Jewry into three factions: Orthodox, Neolog and Status Quo (i.e. those communities which did not wish to join either side but rather retained their pre-Congress status). See EJ, Vol. VIII, col. 1092.