Rabinul Chaim Shmuel Schor. Istoria unui dissident
Rabbi Chaim Shmuel Schor. The Story of a Dissident

Summary/Abstract: In the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century, the Ashkenazi Jewish world in the Kingdom of Romania underwent progressive changes of identity, as, on the local confessional background of Galician inspiration, modernization tendencies of the cult of Central European origin were gradually grafted. These new orientations were not unanimously accepted. In the years following the founding of Greater Romania, after the Government stated its willingness to regulate the rite breakdown of the mosaic cult, Jews who disliked reshuffles in ritual practice showed a keen desire to split from their more liberal co-religionists, who had developed certain inclination towards modernization. After the Great Union, communities that had evolved in distinct historical regions, with organizations and cultural traditions not entirely superimposed, were forced to cohabit and function according to unitary rules. At the same time, Romanian Jews gained the right to send their representative to the country’s Senate, but the process of appointing the person worthy of this position, in the context of major differences of opinion, was not without difficulties. Rabbi Chaim Shmuel Schor from Bucharest was one of the leading protagonists of these events, and this article aims to integrate an absent fragment, at this time, in the written history of the Jews in Romania, as it is the first to explicitly approach his personality and activity.

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