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Bidding Information
Lot #    20905
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 10:51:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Anti-Zionist – Kuntres Da’at Torah
Title (Hebrew)    ÷åðèøñ ãòú úåøä
Author    [Polemic] Ge’onei ha-Eretz
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Da'at
Publication Date    1967
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Only edition? 14 pp. octavo 160:115 mm., light staining. A good copy bound as issued.
          
Detailed
Description
   Anti-Zionist polemic pamphlet comprised of the collected opinions of leading right-wing rabbis prohibiting taking funds from the government in support of yeshivot. Kuntres Da’at Torah is comprised of an introduction and six pesak din and letters opposing accepting government aid. The contents are a pesak din from R. Duschinsky and the bet din of the Perushim and Hasidim (1952); a letter from the ge’onei Eretz Israel (1955), a warning from R. Duschinsky and the bet din of the Perushim and Hasidim (1956); a letter from R. Isser Zalman Meltzer, rosh yeshivah Ez Hayyim; a peak din from R. Pinhas Epstein, rosh Av bet din; and a second letter from R. Pinchas Epstein (1967). Both the pesak sins and the letters have, in addition to the lead names, other signatories.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica