DEINARD, EPHRAIM.

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Aruchath Bath Ami. Ha’Hachanoth... [“The Healing of My People”: Preparations for the rabbinical congress concerning the establishment of the Sanhedrin in Zion]. pp. (4), 100. Dedicated to Sir Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner in Palestine. On pp. 1 and 4, a handwritten letter of protest to the Author from the assistant to an unnamed Chassidic rabbi. The signature has been expunged. St. Louis, n.d. (1920-1927). * WITH: Deinard, David Menachem. Ma’ayan Ganim / Gan Ha’Sanhedrin [“The Garden of the Sanhedrin": Call for the Reestablishment of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem]. pp. (4), 57, (1). Final page with woodcut design of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, 1927

Two Proposals for the Reestablishment of the Sanhedrin. Ephraim Deinard adds his voice to those of R. Aaron Mendel Cohen of Cairo, R. Chaim Hirschensohn of Hoboken, and the unnamed rabbi of Shkod near Kovno, to establish a Sanhedrin (High Court) in Jerusalem (see p. 7). At the same time, Deinard warns against secular Zionists who would turn the Land of Israel into a Bolshevist regime (pp. 19-21, 99-100). Though undated, it is possible to narrow the dates of publication of Aruchath Bath Ami to between 1920, the date of R. Aaron Mendel Cohen’s letter to Deinard, and 1927, the date of David Menachem Deinard’s publication, Ma’ayan Ganim, which refers to his relative’s “Aruchath Bath Ami" as a published work. (Furthermore, Hebert Samuel was appointed High Commissioner of Palestine in the year 1920.) David Menachem Deinard of Jaffa was a relative of Ephraim, of whom the latter was extremely fond. Ephraim dedicated to David Menachem his memoirs, Zichronoth Bath Ami (see Lot 115) upon the celebration of David’s seventieth birthday in 1918. At that time, David had resided in Eretz Israel for thirty-six years. In his own plea for the reestablishment of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem, David remarks that of all the rabbis of the Holy Land, the only one who saw fit to adddress the subject was Rabbi A.I. Kook in his published letters, “Igroth ha-RAYH." Therefore, suggests David Deinard, rabbis abroad who are interested in the topic should apply only to Rabbi Kook