Book details: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: THE RIGHT TO PRACTICE SHEHITAH, KOSHER SLAUGHTERING.
$US 100.00
(xt) Lewin, Isaac
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: THE RIGHT TO PRACTICE SHEHITAH, KOSHER SLAUGHTERING.
Imprint: New York, Research Institute for Post War Problems of Religious Jewry, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Cloth. 8vo. 278 pages, illustrations, facsims, 26 cm. "Concerns the most flagrant anti-Jewish laws found on the statute books of enlightened countries--a remnant of a decade of Nazi proaganda." Looks at the restricting of kosher butchering as a form of religious oppression; while examining the Nazi period, the book also looks at the post-war period ahead, and calls for guarantees that Jews everywhere be able to practice shehitah. "The study upon which this volume is based was sponsored by the Agudath Israel World Organization and the American Jewish Committee"--Foreword. Scarce publisher's promotional slip laid in; it notes that "The printing, as well as the circularizing [sic] of this book in necessary quarters, has entailed considerable cost." Subject Shehitah. Added Authors: Munk, Michael L. Berman, Jeremiah Joseph, 1902-. Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very good condition. (amr-19-23A)
Stock number:38842.