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Sekira ketzara le-moshav ha-mo'atza ha-merkazit |
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סקירה קצרה למושב המועצה המרכזית במאריאנבד |
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[Holocaust] |
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Marienbad |
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Agudat Jisrael |
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1947 |
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This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
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Physical
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Only edition. 11, 2 pp., 330:210 mm., light age staining. As issued.
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This is a short summary of the Agudat Israel Central World Council meeting held in Mareinbad in 1947. The document begins with an outline and contains fascinating historical material regarding negotiations with the secular state regarding many issued of importance to Holocaust survivors. The pamphlet concludes with three addenda. |
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Agudat Israel - world Jewish movement and political party seeking to preserve Orthodoxy by adherence to halakhah as the principle governing Jewish life and society. The ideal on which Jewish life should be modeled, in the view of Agudat Israel, is embodied in the social and religious institutions, the way of life and mores, that obtained in the Diaspora centers in Eastern and Central Europe in the 19th century. Its geographical and linguistic orientation made it automatically a purely Ashkenazi movement. The formation of an organized movement and political party to achieve these aims was itself an innovation. It was deemed necessary to present a viable counterforce to the advances made by assimilation and Reform trends, and by Zionism, the Bund, and autonomism in Jewry. The establishment of a movement was discussed in 1909 by members of the German neo-Orthodox group, but internal dissension in the Orthodox camp delayed it for three years. The final impetus was given when the tenth Zionist Congress decided to include cultural activities in its program, thereby recognizing a secular Jewish culture coexistent with the religious. Some members of the Mizrachi party left the Zionist movement and joined the founders of Agudat Israel in an assembly held in May 1912 at Kattowitz in Upper Silesia.
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The numerical strength of Agudat Israel was seriously impaired by the Holocaust. By the end of World War II the movement in Eastern Europe was all but annihilated. Most of its members were living in Erez Israel, although some eventually emigrated to the United States and Western Europe. At the meeting of the Central World Council at Marienbad in August 1947, three centers for the movement were established: in Jerusalem, New York, and London |
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