Rabbi Chaim Penter, wonder rabbi from Bukowska, Galicia, was sentenced to spend a day in jail or to pay a fine amounting to $4.50 of American money when he returned to Vienna ignoring the fact that he was expelled from that city.
Rabbi Pinter fled from Galicia during the World War because of the Russian invasion. On his way to Vienna both his fee were frozen necessitating amputation. Early in 1923 he sailed for England where he was in a hospital for six months and where he was given artificial legs.
Rabbi Pinter returned to Vienna because he had left his wife and seven children there. He was arrested and sentenced upon his arrival.
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