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The title of this volume means “words of parting”, and they were spoken in the synagogue in Alsokibin, where he was the rabbi from 1896 to 1906. The book is in German, with occasional phrases in Hebrew.
Olni Kubin (Slovak Dolnl, KubEn; Hung. Alsókubin)is a town in N. Slovakia. Jews from Holesov, Moravia, settled there around 1700; there were three families (17 persons) in 1735. A synagogue, to seat 140, was built in 1775. In 1785 when the infant daughter of the local rabbi, Ephraim Kubinsky, was baptized without his knowledge, he petitioned Joseph II who decided that she should be given a Jewish education in Kubinsky's house, but also be instructed in the Catholic religion, and could decide between them at the age of 18: she decided to remain Jewish. In 1850 the day for holding the weekly fair in the town was transferred, at the community's request, from Saturday to Wednesday, by an imperial decision. The community split in 1870 when a separate Neolog community was founded, with a new synagogue and a school of six classes. Its rabbi was Sigmund Maybaum. The communities reunited in 1886 as a status-quo community. A Zionist association existed in Dolni Kubin even before the holding of the first Zionist Congress (1897). |
