Shomrei HaDath, Statuten fir den Ungarisch-Yiddischen Ferein "Gloibensvechter" [Statutes of the Hungarian-Jewish Society "Shomrei HaDath" or "Gloibensvechter"]

(HUNGARY)

Ofen [i.e., Budapest]

1868

Hebrew, Yiddish and Hungarian.

Signals the founding of a separate Orthodox faction within Hungarian Jewry, true to the dictates of traditional Orthodoxy and at the same time firmly patriotic to Hungary. Thus, one of the resolutions of the Society is the publication of a Hungarian-language organ "Magyar Zsido" [Hungarian Jew] (see p. 9, par. 4). The signatories on the manifesto are three of Hungary's most prominent Orthodox Rabbis: Abraham Samuel Benjamin Schreiber of Pressburg (the Kesav Sopher); Jeremiah Loew of Ujhely and Menachem Eisenstaedter (son of Mahara"m Asch). For the crucial part played by the Shomrei HaDath at the General Jewish Congress convened by the Government in 1868, and the influence Shomrei HaDath continued to exert on the internal politics of Hungarian Jewry, see JE, Vol. VI, p. 502-3; EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 1091-2; Vol. XIV, cols. 906-7.