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Lot 123:
Jews and Judaism in New York, by R. Moshe Weinberger. New York, Der New Yorker Yiddishen Zeitung. 1887. [2], 124, [1] pp., 19 cm.
Only edition. The author, a European-born New York rabbi, depicts Jewish life in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, including the status of kashrut, Torah study, the Reform movement and more. The author approximates the Jewish population in New York in his time to be 100,000–120,000. One can detect a tone of bitterness in the book, as he attacks the modernizers, who turned their backs of the ways of their fathers. As he writes (p. 36): “the foundation and guiding principle of all things in America is the dollar, with money making or breaking all. ”
R. Moshe Weinberger was born in Hungary in 1852, and emigrated to the United States in 1880. He served as Rabbi of the Hungarian congregation in New York, with which he was in constant tension, until 1906, when the relationship exploded over his establishment of a Matzah factory. Regarding this controversy he published the Divrei Shalom V’Emet, New York, 1908, and Iggeret Mishneh, 1909, which also appear in this catalogue. He later joined up with Aron Streit in the establishment of the famous Streit ’s bakery. He passed away in 1940, and is buried not far from R. Jacob Joseph, the former Chief Rabbi of New York. Included is some biographical information.
In excellent condition and in its original binding.
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