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Anti-Zionist tract by R. Issachar Baer Kahan. The title is from “It is vain for you to rise up early” (Psalms 127:2). The title page states that in it will be explained, according to the Torah and the sages many errors of those people who go in darkness, going and being drawn after the Zionist movement. R. Kahan is described as av bet din of ערדעסעגזשארץ, and currently residing in וואשאאהעלי.At the bottom of the page R. Kahan’s name is given in Roman letters as M. Wolf Kohn, Tirgu-Mires (Marosvasarmely), Petoffy-Gasse Nr. 7. On the verso of the title page is the caution against applying references to terms such as akum, etc. to current peoples. There is an apologia from the author and then the text.
R. Kahan (b.1830-1923), who was not a Kohen, was a student of R. Jeremiah Loewe. He was the son-in-law of R. Meir Abraham, author of Peri Zaddik. From 1852, R. Kahan served as in אוהעל. After the death of his wife, R. Kahan remarried to the widow of R. Moses Sternav bet din of ערדעסעגזשארץ, and from 1876 served there as av bet din.In 1917 he relocated to Marosvasarmely where he was the admor. R. Kahan published, at an early age, an edition of Dagul me-Revavah (Ungvar, 1864) by R. Ezekiel Landau (Noda bi-Yehudah, 1713-94) from an old manuscript, which he annotated. After R. Kahan’s death his Binah Yissachar (1924) on the Torah and festivals was published. In 1924, R. Kahan’s grandson published his responsa (Brooklyn). |
