Bet Yaaqov-Zentrale (Vienna)
The "Girls’ School Organization Beth Jakob" (Haus Jakob) in Vienna was founded in 1928 and maintained a Talmud Torah school for girls and a Jewish house of prayer at 2., Leopoldsgasse 26. The association was part of the Jewish-Orthodox world organization Agudas Yisroel (Keren Hathora department) and the "International Girls’ School Organization Beth Jakob". Beth Jakob girls’ schools were also located in Kraków and Riga at the time. The proponents Salomon Türkl, 1928 resident at 2nd, Franz-Hochedlinger-Gasse 9/7, Jakob Halpern, 20th, Wallensteinstrasse 21, Jakob Schaffer, 20th, Klosterneuburger Strasse18, Jakob Rogner, 2., Franz-Hochedlinger-Gasse 10 and others submitted the statutes in September 1928 to the association authorities and to the city school board for Vienna . The purpose of the association was “the education of Jewish female youth in the spirit of Jewish tradition and the general idea of education. For this purpose, the association founds schools (Beth Jakob Schulen) and organizes courses, lectures and other teaching facilities” (Statute 1939, § 2). Any Jew who pays the prescribed membership fee and whose moral conduct is not objected to could become a member (Statute 1929, § 4). [1] The association had moved its activities to London before 1938 and was not re-established in this form in Vienna after 1945.
Frankfurt A.M, 1930. Interesting pictures. Pages are loose.
Rabbi Tobias (Tuvia) Horowitz (1893-1942) spent his early years in Groysvardayn, in the house of his great-uncle, Rabbi Yisrael Hager, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, tutoring his cousins Rokhele and Dvorele in Biblical Hebrew and Jewish History. While he got along with his great-uncle, he described the Hasidim as narrow-minded men who “persecuted” him for his broad-minded ideas.
In Vienna in 1915, he met and forged a close relationship with Nathan Birnbaum; Rabbi Horowitz considered Birnbaum a spiritual influence, and he in turn helped Birnbaum forge connections with the Agudah (Birnbaum later served as General Secretary).
After marrying the daughter of the the Admor of Ryboticze, Rabbi Tuvia Horowitz moved to Rzeszow, where he headed the Bais Yaakov committee (the Rzezsow Bais Yaakov was the third largest, after schools in Kraków and Warsaw).
Rabbi Horowitz also served as Vice President of the Agudath Israel in Poland, and on the Executive Committee of Bais Yaakov and of the Agudah. He traveled to England in 1927 and was sent to the United States for two years in the late 1920s to raise $25,000 for the Teachers’ Seminary in Kraków . He left Rzeszow when he was accepted as the Rabbi and head of the Rabbinical court of Sanok.
He was murdered, along with his brother-in-law Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Horowitz and their wives and children, in Rymanów in October 1942.
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