Large broadside with historic letters.
Extremally Rare! Unrecorded & not in the collection of the JNUL.
42 X 32 cm.
Klausenburg, Weinstein & Freidman press, 1921.
Historic background:
In 1878-1923, Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner, author of Dor Revii, descendant of the Chatam Sofer, served as rabbi of the Orthodox community in Klausenburg. Rabbi Glasner was an Orthodox rabbi and Torah scholar, yet he was rejected by the Chassidic communities in the town for his Zionist views and leadership of the Mizrachi movement. Klausenburg was at that time the stronghold of Zionism in Transylvania, and this generated a schism in the local Orthodox community.
The opposing faction, mostly consisting of Sighet Chassidim, wished to establish their own community, though this was forbidden by Austro-Hungarian law. After the end of WWI, when Klausenburg came under Romanian rule, the seceding faction was authorized to organize its own community. Thus, with the support of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, their spiritual mentor, a large group of Sighet Chassidim broke away from the main community, and founded a new Orthodox community named "Adath HaSefardim (Chassidim who pray with Nusach Sefard) – Klausenburg" (due to legal restrictions, they were compelled to define their community as Status Quo rather than Orthodox). This schism aroused a great controversy involving many Rabbis; some supporting it, and others opposing it. On both sides, polemic works were written.
The members of the new community wished their mentor Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum to come to Klausenburg to serve as rabbi of their community (In 1911 Rebbe Yoel was appointed rabbi in Irshava; since the beginning of WWI, he lived in Satmar).
However, this plan did not materialize. Eventually, in 1926, Rebbe Yoel of Satmar sent them his nephew, Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam to serve as rabbi of the new community in Klausenburg (Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam of Klausenburg, founder of the Sanz Chassidic dynasty after the Holocaust, was the son-in-law of Rebbe Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, the Atzei Chaim of Sighet – brother of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar). Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum returned to serve as rabbi in Irshava in 1922.
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