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Machzikei Hadass

orthodox Jewish political party

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2024
Entity authorityQ97358358 ↗
Source-derived summary

Machzikei Hadass was a Haredi Jewish political party in 19th-century Austria-Hungary. At the 1879 Reichsrat election, the party ran on a joint list with the Polish nationalist Polenklub. Krakow's chief rabbi, Shimon Sofer, was elected in the Kolomea-Buczacz-Sniatyn district. He served until his death in 1883.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Machzikei Hadass” is orthodox Jewish political party. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Machzikei, Hadass and orthodox, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1879, 1883—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1879-03-13. For this dossier, Machzikei, Hadass and orthodox is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Machzikei Hadass” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.