Modernizacja czy próba podziału gminy? Batalia o mianowanie postępowego rabina w Warszawie
Modernization or an Attempt to Divide the Community? Battle for the Appointment of a Progressive Rabbi in Warsaw

Summary/Abstract: Samuel Poznański was a leading representative of reformed Judaism in Warsaw. In 1921, the committee of the Grand Synagogue at Tłomackie street proposed his appointment as member of the Warsaw council of rabbis. The Warsaw Jewish community, led by assimilators, consented to it while Orthodox Jews protested against the move and actually resorted to street demonstrations. Samuel Poznański died shortly after the approval of his appointment by the State authorities. The advocates of reformed Judaism proposed Lvov Professor Mojżesz Schorr as his successor. Schorr took the office in 1923 and held it until the outbreak of World War II.

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