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A rare poster lambasting and outlawing a Sephardic ritual slaughterer (shokhet) in Cluj (Klausenburg). The poster contains support statements by R. Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar, R. Saul Brach of Kosica, R. Ezekiel Panet of Dej, and many others.
R. Moses Samuel Glasner (18561924), rabbi and early leader of the Mizrachi movement in Hungary and Transylvania. Glasner, a great-grandson of R. Moshe Sofer, was born in Pressburg. From 1878 until 1923, when he settled in Erez Israel, he was the rabbi of Klausenburg. He was one of the two Orthodox rabbis in Hungary (the other being Moses Aryeh Roth) who joined the Zionist movement and Mizrachi, and at the founding convention of Mizrachi (Pressburg, 1904) he spoke out against the Orthodox Hungarian rabbis for their attacks upon Zionism and the Mizrachi. He propagated the Zionist idea in speeches and writings among Orthodox circles. He also published several halakhic works (Or Bahir, 1908; Halakhah le-Moshe, 1912; Dor Revi'i, 1921) and a work on the aggadah, Shevivei Esh (1903).
In the closing paragraph R. Glasner declares his retirement from 44 years of service in the rabbinate and appoints his son as replacement. |
