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Lot #    6332
Auction End Date    12/16/2003 4:20:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Koppel Reich
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר קאפל רייך
Author    [Ms.]
City    Budapest
Publication Date    1919
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2] pp., 229:145 mm., light age staining, ink on stationary, neat Ashkenazic script, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Koppel Reich (Jacob; 1838–1929), Hungarian rabbi. Born in Verbo into a rabbinical family, he studied under his father R. Abraham Ezekiel Reich, rabbi of Bannewitz, and R. Abraham Samuel Benjamin Sofer, rabbi of Pressburg. He married the daughter of R. Israel ha-Ro'eh, disciple of R. Moses Sofer and rabbi of Szobotiszt, whom he succeeded in 1860. Twenty years later he became rabbi of Verbo where his grandfather had previously held office, and was elected chief rabbi of the Orthodox community of Budapest in 1889. R. Reich possessed a wide general education and was active in Hungarian Orthodox communal affairs. In 1905 he presided over the convention of Orthodox rabbis and community leaders who drew up the regulations of Orthodox Jewry in Hungary. He delivered the opening speech in Hebrew - an unusual event in Hungary. These regulations were later ratified by the government and became the legal framework for the organization of Orthodoxy in Hungary. In the school which he established and directed, Torat Emet, both religious and secular subjects were taught. In 1927, although he was almost 90 years old, he took his seat in the upper house of the Hungarian parliament. Reich left no works, but he is quoted by rabbis of his generation. All his sons and sons-in-law held rabbinical office in Hungary.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; P. Z. Schwartz, Shem ha-Gedolim me-Erez Hagar (1959), pt. 2, p. 35
        
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20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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