Yerushath Pleitah [responsa by Hungarian Rabbis, most of whom perished in the Holocaust]

(HOLOCAUST)

Gewurcz Brothers

Budapest

1946

FIRST EDITION

The book focuses on the impact upon Halachic norms of 20th-century technological developments. The title page states that publication of this work began before the War but could not be completed due to the outbreak of hostilities. The respondents include R. Nata Shlomo Schlissel of Munkatch, R. Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal of Pistyan, R. Ephraim Fishel Sussman-Sopher of Budapest, R. Nachum Weidenfeld of Dombrowa, R. Jonathan Steif of Budapest. Included are questions pertaining to Sabbath observance, such as the use of electricity, the administering of medicines, commercial investments; also questioning the permissibility of baking of matzoth by machine; issues relating to residing in the Land of Israel - and particulally poignantly, whether alms that were collected for the poor in Israel may be redirected in order to free those imprisoned by the Nazis. Appended to the work is a four page list of some 350 local Rabbis who were killed in 1944 when Germany occupied Hungary