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Bidding Information
Lot #    18216
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 11:48:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Am H' Shimu
Title (Hebrew)    òí ä' ùîòå
Author    [Polemic]
City    London
Publisher    Neturi Karta
Publication Date    1956
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [8] pp., 228:143 mm., usual light age staining. A very good copy bound as issued.
          
Detailed
Description		    Anti-Zionist polemic issued by the Neturi Karta group of ultra-religious extremists, mainly in Jerusalem, who regard the establishment of a secular Jewish state in Erez Israel as a sin and a denial of G-d, and therefore do not recognize the State of Israel. Their name, which is Aramaic for “guardians of the City,” derives from a passage in the Jerusalem Talmud (Hag. 76:3) stating that religious scholars are the guardians and defenders of the city. Neturei Karta broke away from Agudat Israel in 1935, when the latter attempted to restrain extremist demands for an independent ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem community completely separate from the rest of the Zionist community. The group first adopted the name Hevrat ha-Hayyim, after R. Joseph Hayyim Sonnenfeld. It aimed at creating “a circle free from the influence of the contemporary spirit and its fallacious opinions,” and a condition of membership was “the education of sons and daughters in the traditional Jewish manner, without any change (girls’ schools which teach Hebrew do not provide education in the traditional Jewish manner).” The last phrase alluded to Agudat Israel's Bet Ya’akov girls’ schools, where the language of instruction is Hebrew.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica