Many Jews in Ústí did not observe Jewish traditions, coming to the synagogue only a few times a year. Despite their own religious lukewarmness, the Jewish community of Ústí engaged in a long struggle with the city authorities regarding the ban on the production of kosher meat in modern city slaughterhouses.
The word kosher refers to a set of Jewish religious rules, especially for the preparation of food and foodstuffs. The basis is the ban on the consumption of, for example, pork, a strictly fast and painless procedure for slaughtering animals, whose meat must be drained of all blood, and the separation of meat and dairy foods.
The long-standing struggle for the possibility of kosher slaughter spread to the local press, animal rights magazines, and city politics. The Czechoslovak state authorities eventually ordered the city to allow kosher slaughter, which some activists perceived as inappropriate Czech-Jewish pressure on the modern German people.
The picture shows an advertisement for the modern city slaughterhouse of Ústí nad Labem, articles from an animal rights magazine protesting against kosher slaughter, photographs of the rabbi of Ústí nad Labem, Dr. Stoessler, and the preamble to the provincial authority's decision to lift the ban on kosher slaughter.
Why do you think the activists protested against kosher slaughter and not against all slaughter at the Ústí nad Labem slaughterhouse?