Rabbi Amram Blau (1894–1974) was an Haredi Rabbi from the Hungarian community of Jerusalem. He was one of the founders of the fiercely Anti-Zionist Neturei Karta.
Blau was born in Jerusalem, and grew up in the Meah Shearim neighbourhood as a proponent of Torah observant Judaism. Like his brother Rabbi Moshe Blau who was a leader in the Aguda, he was also active in the Aguda during the British Mandate era and was the editor of its organ "Kol Israe...
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Rabbi Amram Blau (1894–1974) was an Haredi Rabbi from the Hungarian community of Jerusalem. He was one of the founders of the fiercely Anti-Zionist Neturei Karta.
Blau was born in Jerusalem, and grew up in the Meah Shearim neighbourhood as a proponent of Torah observant Judaism. Like his brother Rabbi Moshe Blau who was a leader in the Aguda, he was also active in the Aguda during the British Mandate era and was the editor of its organ "Kol Israel" (Voice of Israel). But when the Aguda began to lean towards a modus vivendi with the Zionist leaders he with Rabbi Aaron Katzenellenbogen claimed that the Aguda had sold out to the Zionist movement and in 1937 broke away and founded Neturei Karta.
After the establishment of the State of Israel, Neturei Karta continued its staunch opposition to a Jewish state, in agreement with the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, author of the anti-Zionist Vayoel Moshe which advocated non-recognition of the State of Israel on theological grounds. Prior...
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