Abraham Kohn, the first Reform (Progressive)
rabbi of Lemberg/Lviv, died at the age of forty-one in 1848 under unclear circumstances.
His death triggered long-lasting speculations among various members of the Lemberg
Jewish community. Was his death a murder and, if it was, than who was guilty? Discussions
of that question have lasted until present day. Historians have advanced different answers
trying to understand the realities of the Galician Jewish community in the 19th century and
the religious life of Lemberg, the center of the eastern province of the Habsburg Austrian
Empire, in which Abraham Kohn appeared so vibrantly and disappeared so suddenly...