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Rare Book on the Split in the Sighet Community – Milchemet Mitzvah – Sighet, 1888 - Rare Book on the Split in the Sighet Community – Milchemet Mitzvah – Sighet, 1888 Open letter and Milchemet Mitzvah. Sighet: Menachem Mendel Wieder, 1888. Includes booklets published during the course of the polemic: Ein Mishpat, Yashuv Mishpat and Emek HaMishpat. On the title page, stamp of R. Chaim Dov Gross of Munkacs (d. 1938), close attendant of the Minchat Elazar. הספר כולל את הקונטרסים שפורסמו במהלך הפולמוס: ”עין משפט” לרבי שלמה ליב טאבאק; ”ישוב משפט” לרבי משה האלברשטאם אב”ד בארדיוב, רבי ישעיה הכהן רובין אב”ד מיהאליפאלווא ורבי פנחס וויינברגר אב”ד ניגרשד; ”עמק המשפט” לרבי יצחק אייזיק פרידמן אב”ד נירעדהאז. 24.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Marginal tears and minor open tears to some leaves, not affecting text. New binding. The Split in the Sighet Community In 1883-1890, a stormy controversy broke out in Sighet between the members of the community who joined the Central Bureau of the Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Communities, and a group of community members who refused to be subordinate to the bureau, and established an independent, Status Quo ”Sefardic” community. The Orthodox community was headed by the Yitav Lev and the Kedushat Yom Tov of Sighet, while the seceding camp was led by the powerful Kahana family, and some Vizhnitz Chassidim. With time, the split in the Sighet community affected many other Hungarian communities, with most the Hungarian rabbis, as well as many rabbis from Galicia and Poland, taking sides in the polemic.