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Bidding Information
Lot #    17530
Auction End Date    3/13/2007 1:42:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ortodoksia oyf di Falshe Vegn
Title (Hebrew)    àøèàãà÷ñéò àåéó ôàìùò ååòâòï
Author    [Only Ed. - Polemic] M. Ben-Shalom
City    New York - Elizabeth, NJ
Publisher    (Posy-Shoulson Press)
Publication Date    c. 1940
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Only edition. 40 pp. plus wrappers, quarto, 215:140 mm., light age staining, final with small tear. A good copy bound in the original paper wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description
   Subtitle: ‘Ver iz shuldig in der hefkerus in dem yiddishen religiezen leben in Amerike?’ – ‘Who is responsible for the free-for-all attitude so evident in the Jewish life of the United States?’.

Fascinating critique of orthodox Jewish life and leadership in the mid-20th century written contemporaneously by a European Jewish immigrant of Austro-Hungarian origin. The text is in Yiddish and covers a range of subjects, including laxity in kashrut, the lack of Shabbat observance, the woeful state of Jewish education, etc.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica