SHEHITAH: A STUDY IN THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1941. Item #34940
Original Cloth. 8vo. 514 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Classic halakhic work on shehitah, and a major historical and social survey of the role of the Shohet, meat, and anti-shehitah legislation. Part three contains a history of Kosher slaughter in New York since the colonial times. With a chapter on Women Shohet, in Talmudic times and more recently in Italy. Rabbi Jeremiah Joseph Bermam (1902-1955) , graduated from City College and JTSA, was Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El of Rochester, served as a member of the New York State Kashruth Board, on the executive board of the Mizrachi Organization of America, and was a contributor to the American Jewish Historical Society and the YIVO. Subjects: Shehitah. Inscribed by the author to U.S. Congressman Nathan D. Perlman, 1943. Light wear and sunning to cloth, tape repair to front hinge. Ex-library, with usual markings. Otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (RAB-58-26A).
Price: $100.00