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Jonathan Horovicz. Der Erste Allgemeine Rabbiner-Kongress zu Krakau.

Auction 88 · Lot 40

Jonathan Horovicz. Der Erste Allgemeine Rabbiner-Kongress zu Krakau.

Estimate
$100–$150
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE).

Place

Also-Kubin (Hungary)

Publication

(1903)

Description

FIRST EDITION. German with smattering of Hebrew.

summary

An account of the first World-wide Conference of Orthodox Rabbis. It was organized a full nine years before the Agudath Yisroel came into being in Katowitz. Concerning this convocation and its relative strengths and weaknesses, see Gershon Bacon, "The Rabbinical Conference in Krakow (1903) and the Beginnings of Organized Orthodox Jewry" in: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Eastern European Jewry, Presented to Immanuel Etkes (2009) pp. 199-225.
pp. 47, (1). Brittle. Original printed wrappers, detached. 4to.
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