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Rare Book on the Split in the Sighet Community – Ohev Mishpat – Lviv, 1887 - Rare Book on the Split in the Sighet Community – Ohev Mishpat – Lviv, 1887 Ohev Mishpat. Published by the ”Sefardic” community in Sighet. Lviv: Felix Bednarski, 1887. Two title pages. [4], 16 pages; [24], 25-104 leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Paper repairs on verso of first title page. Wormhole through half the book. 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.