WEINBERGER, MOSES. Ha-Yehudim ve-ha-Yahaduth be-New York / Jews and Judaism in New York

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

New Yorker Yiddishen Zeitung

New York

1887

FIRST EDITION. Additional title page in English

Singerman 3607

A sorry account of the collapse of traditional Jewish life among New York’s immigrants. The Hungarian-born author records the fact that in a city of one hundred thousand Jews and one hundred and thirty Orthodox congregations there are to be found no more than three or four bona fide halachic experts, whereas there are hundreds of “darshanim” or preachers of homiletics (p. 4). However, Weinberger notes the opening of Yeshivath Eitz Chaim, an institution he feels to be well equipped to instill a sense of faith and learning into its charges. Eitz Chaim was the seed which, upon amalgamation with the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Seminary, became New York’s Yeshiva University. See S. Klaperman, The Story of Yeshiva University (1967)