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Lot #
19958
Auction End Date
2/19/2008 10:57:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Polemic - The Community should see and judge
Title (Hebrew)
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Author
[Polemic - Unrecorded] Mo’etzet Agudat Israel
City
Jerusalem
Publisher
Mo’etzet Agudat Israel
Publication Date
1946
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. [4] pp., 170:120 mm., light age staining. Not in CD-EPI.
Detailed
Description
Small pamphlet issued by Mo’etzet Agudat Israel The pamphlet begins with a statement that it is easy to accuse and to spread false rumors. It is not their intent to do so. Nevertheless, they make clear the difficulties Agudat Israel has had with Poalei Agudat Israel. The purpose of Agudat Israel in Jerusalem has been to fight against the desecration of Shabbat in Jerusalem and the rise of Reform. This pamphlet is intended to provide the community with details of the situation. After the last election it was possible for the religious to join the municipal coalition, for without them it was not possible to form a coalition. All the religious agreed on conditions for participating in the government. However Poalei Agudat Israel and Mizrahi worked at cross purposes with Poalei Agudat Israel, as detailed inthis pamphlet. Agudat Israel is the 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. Agudat Israel was constituted of three groups reflecting German neo-Orthodoxy, Hungarian Orthodoxy, and the Orthodox Jewries in Poland and Lithuania. These differed in political and social outlook, and in their opinions on cultural and organizational matters. A major divergence was the attitude to general European culture, society, and mores, which German Orthodoxy accepted. They also disagreed about whether to remain part of the main Jewish communal unit or to form separate Orthodox communities, and whether Jews should adopt the language of the state or adhere to Yiddish . Their attitude toward Zionism was also a moot point. Branches of Agudat Israel were established throughout the Ashkenazi world. Later it developed a youth movement (Ẓe'irei Agudat Israel) and a women's movement (Neshei Agudat Israel) in several countries. In Germany the "Ezra" youth movement was affiliated with it. The labor movement that formed within Agudat Israel separated from the parent body after disagreement on national, social, and religious issues Po'alei Agudat Israel (PAI), haredi workers party, affiliated to the World Union of Po'alei Agudat Israel. PAI was founded in Lodz, Poland, in 1922, as an outgrowth of Agudat Israel . Its central ideal was the application of the social principles contained in the Torah in daily Jewish life. In its struggle for social progress, PAI clashed with the Jewish industrialists in Poland, from whom it demanded better treatment of the workers, and eventually with Agudat Israel over the same issue. PAI continued to operate in Ereẓ Israel in close cooperation with Agudat Israel, and was close to it in its religious approach and the aspiration to establish in the country a society run on the basis of the halakhah. However, unlike Agudat Israel it also advocated cooperation with the secular Jewish population in Ereẓ Israel on national issues. At the third Kenesiyah ha-Gedolah (Great Synod), held by Agudat Israel at Marienbad in Czechoslovakia in 1937, PAI advocated support for the establishment of a Jewish state on the basis of the Peel Commission Report, and the setting up of kibbutzim with the assistance of Zionist funds. The Great Synod rejected PAI's proposals. A breach with Agudat Israel occurred when PAI established a youth movement called Ezra, to which Agudat Israel strongly objected. Members of PAI settled on Jewish National Fund land in May 1944 and established kibbutz Hafeẓ Ḥayyim. It later established kibbutz Sha'albim and several moshavim. In 1945 Minz was elected political leader of PAI, and the following year the World Union of Po'alei Agudat Israel was founded in Antwerp. This step was regarded as PAI's final secession from World Agudat Israel, following which members of PAI joined the Haganah , while Minz became a member of the yishuv' s security committee. Shortly after the establishment of the state, PAI joined the trade union section of the Histadrut . Despite all of this, it continued to accept the authority of Agudat Israel's Mo'ezet Gedolei ha-Torah (Council of Torah Sages).
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20th Century:
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Polemics:
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Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
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