Regulations of the Shocher Tov Society of the Eisenstadt Community – Signatures of the City Rabbi Azriel ...

Regulations of the Shocher Tov Society of the Eisenstadt Community – Signatures of the City Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer, Rabbis and Community Leaders – Eisenstadt, 1853-1854
Yiddish-Deitsch manuscript, regulations of the Shocher Tov Society, for financial support for those conscripted for army service and draftees. Signed by the city rabbi, Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer, the community dayanim, Rabbi Wolf Austerlitz and Rabbi Gumfreich Bontzalo, and many signatures of community leaders and community honoraries. Eisenstadt, Cheshvan 1853. On the reverse side of the leaf is a protocol of a meeting of the community committee at which new community tax rates were determined for support of those conscripted for army service and draftees, with signatures of Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer, Rabbi Wolf Austerlitz and others. Eisenstadt, Shevat 1854. Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899) was a leading Torah scholar in his days. Disciple of the author of Aruch LaNer and Rabbi Isaac Braneis of Hamburg, served as Rabbi of Eisenstadt (Northern Hungary) from 1851 to 1869 and established a yeshiva, the first of its kind, instituting the “Torah im Derech Eretz” method in which secular subjects were taught in addition to Torah studies. In 1869, he was appointed Av Beit Din of Berlin where he established the Rabbinical Seminary and led Orthodox Jewry in Germany. Rabbi Binyamin Ze’ev Wolf Austerlitz (died Kislev 1868), was the Ra’avad of the Eisenstadt Beit Din, father-in-law of Rabbi Aharon Fisher, disciple of the Chatam Sofer and grandfather of Rabbi Shlomo Fisher, Av Beit Din of Carlsberg. Leaf, approximately 51 cm. Written on both sides. Fair condition, tears to leaf folds, foxing.