Auction 44
Lot 211:
1. Ateret Eliyahu (Rabbi Eliyahu of Liska)—Jerusalem 1913. The last leaf has a handwritten signature from Rabbi Yochanan Twersky.
2. The Yerayim (Rabbi Eliezer of Metz)—Vilna 1881. The blank first page has an inscription: “belongs to the Rahach Yochanan Twersky of Jerusalem.”
Admor Rabbi Yochanan Twersky of Rachmastrivka (1900-1982) was a descendant of Rabbi Nachum of Chernobyl (the Maor Einayim). He rejuvenated the Chassidic line after the Shoah. He studied under his father, the Admor Rabbi David, and moved with his family to Israel in 1926. After his father’s death in 1950 he was appointed his successor in Jerusalem.
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