This is actually from Moses Margoliouth's The Fundamental Principles of Modern Judaism Investigated, pp. 84 ff., which can be seen here (I hope). This was published in 1843. It was taken either directly from there or from the Rev. W. Ayerst's The Jews of the Nineteenth Century, which quoted Margoliouth and was published in 1847. I came across this last year while who knows looking for what.
Thanks. I just posted about Margoliouth the other day.
FRED:
i'm going to be guilty of piggybacking on you again:
http://agmk.blogspot.com/2008/
04...rica.html#links
S.
I think most everyone agrees that the concept of daf yomi had been suggested by others before RMS. The credit that belongs to RMS is that he was the one to promote the idea at the knessiah gedola. Also, even though various kehillos were doing their own daf, RMS instituted that all Jews all over the world should learn the SAME daf. See "A Blaze in the Darkening Gloom"
The life of Rav Meir Shapiro
Feldheim Publishers, 1994 for more details.
As an aside, this is one of the better biographies available today.
kol tuv:
RMS was not the first to suggest that all learn the same daf. his credit is that he was the first to successfully market such a program.
Even within Agudist circles it is said that the rebbe of Chortkov actually suggested the idea for RMS to suggest, the idea being that for whatever political reason at the time 'the velt' would be receptive to RMS's suggestion, but not if it came from the Chortkover
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