| The full title reads: An die hohen gesetzgebenden Körperschaften des Deutschen Reiches. The title translates as: "To the high legislative bodies of the German Reich" and it contains material gathered by the Free Union for the Interests of Orthodox Judaism.
A volume on shechitah (the prescribed manner of slaughtering animals for food) put out by the Freie Vereinigung für die Interessen des Orthodoxen Judentums.The term "Orthodoxy" is applied to Jewish traditionalist movements that resisted the European Emancipation and Enlightenment.
The adjective "Orthodox"appears to have been first applied derisively to Jewish conservatives by a Reform polemicist in an article published in 1795. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch commented bitterly in 1854 that ...it was not "Orthodox" Jews who introduced the word "orthodox" into Jewish discussion. It was the modern "progressive" Jews who first applied the name to "old," "backward" Jews as a derogatory term. This name was at first resented by "old" Jews. And rightfully so... By 1886, Hirsch established the "Freie Vereinigung für die Interessen des Orthodoxen Judentums" (Free Union for the Interests of Orthodox Judaism)! In 1910, 612 German slaughterhouse veterinarians and 41 German veterinary associations described stunning-free slaughter as cruelty to animals in a declaration to the Imperial German Parliament and demanded a legal prohibition. This volume contains a reponse.
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