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Lot #    18799
Auction End Date    8/21/2007 12:15:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Mif'al: zichron kedoshe Tsihoslovakiya
Title (Hebrew)    מפעל זכרון קדושי ציחוסלובקיא
Author    Agudat Jisrael
City    Pressburg (Bratislava)
Publisher    Agudat Yisrael Be'Czechoslovakia
Publication Date    1947
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 8 pp., 297:211 mm., usual age staining.
          
Paragraph 1    This newsletter is called Circular no. 6/707 and it is typed in Yiddish and seems to have been run off on a mimeograph machine. It is a newsletter for those survivors of the Holocaust who were located in Bratislava. The news items include a listing of the Rabbis who make up the committee in Czechoslovakia, with a note signed by R. Yekutiel Juda Halberstam, a note from the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, R. Yosef Dov Dushinsky, with a blessing that Hashem should strengthen them , etc.
          
Detailed
Description		    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.

The goals of Agudat Israel after the war were to encourage religious observance and aliya to Erez Israel.
          
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20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
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Language:    Yiddish
  
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