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TUB TAAM: OR A VINDICATION OF THE JEWISH MODE OF SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS FOR FOOD CALLED SHECHITAH

1904rif. 42841New York : Bloch Publ. Co 1904. Hardcover. 2nd English Edition 1st was 1876 Singerman 2550. Original printed gray wrappers 8vo xiv 1 16-53 pages. 23 cm. English translation of the Jewish Response to the First Anti-Shechitah Campaign in America giving an explanation of the necessity for Jews to maintain the laws of ritual slaughter. Aaron Zebi Friedman 1822-76 served as shochet or ritual slaughterer in his native Poland before immigrating to New York in 1848 where he found employment in one of the city's largest kosher slaughterhouses. In 1866 the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals launched the first anti-Shehitah campaign in America. The president of the Society Henry Bergh dispatched a letter to the proprietor of a kosher abattoir in New York accusing him of engaging in "barbarous revolting and wicked" practices-the letter is reproduced in full in this work. Bergh further called on him to desist from violating the laws of New York and of God by "mangling and torturing his creatures." Interestingly among the members listed in the letterhead of Bergh's letter were August Belmont the Rothschilds' representative in America and Charles P. Daly a chief justice of New York. In 1875 Aaron Zebi Friedman renowned for his piety composed a sharp rejoinder entitled Tub Taam to refute Bergh's accusations. He not only succeeded in silencing Bergh but even in convincing him: In 1885 Bergh defended shechitah against charges of cruelty leveled by the Philadelphia branch of his Society. Goldman 1092; JE Vol. V p. 518. Among those who supported the Jewish position on Shechitah in the struggle against the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was President Ulysses S. Grant. According to Joakim Isaacs Grant "was moved by this English translation.to eat only ritually slaughtered meat in the latter part of his life" See J. Isaacs "Candidate Grant and the Jews" American Jewish Archives 17. 1 1965 p. 15 n. 31; I. H. Sharfman The First Rabbi 1988 pp. 591-92. Apropos of the current culture wars animal rights organizations and activists within and outside of the Jewish world continue to criticize kosher slaughtering practices on the grounds of animal cruelty. The 1st edition of the English translation from 1876 sold at auction in 2015 for over $8000 with commissions; indeed that 1876 edition OCLC: 191279661 is rare with only 5 copies listed between Singerman and OCLC AJHS HUC Princeton Bar Ilan American Antiquarian. SUBJECTS: Slaughtering and slaughter-houses. Jews -- Dietary laws. Juifs -- Lois alimentaires. Kashrut. OCLC: 11014499 for this 1904 2nd English edition listing 16 institutions with holdings. Tiny bit of wear at spine Very Good Condition. Beautiful copy. BK5 amr-67-55AXX-BLF-'mex. New York : Bloch Publ. Co hardcover

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