Sefer Kvod Yerushalayim, first section, by Rabbi Avraham Mordechai HaLevi Ish Horwitz. Levels extreme charges against the Gur chassidim and the Sfat Emet yeshiva, which he claims has taken over the Warsaw Kollel. It is mainly against his father-in-law, the Gerrer Rebbe (the Imrei Emet) and his brother-in-law (Rabbi Yaakov Meir Beiderman), and their friends who he says ‘took over the control of the poor of Israel for themselves’. At the beginning of the work is a printed tshuva from the gaon Rabbi Shlomo Eliezer Alfandery supporting the author’s claims. There is also an introduction including a summary of his work “HaTmicha B’Eretz HaKodesh” which surveys the matter of support from its origins until the present day.
Only edition – Jerusalem 1930. [4], 132 pages.
In response, a few months later the pamphlet “Kol MiZion” by Rabbi Aryeh Mordechai Rabinowitz, the Rabbi of Kurów and first Rabbi of Bnei Brak, was published with letters from rabbis across the Haredi spectrum, including Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonenfeld and Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook, who forbade the reading of Kavod Yerushalayim and labelled it propaganda: “And be warned that it not be seen and not be found so that an abomination will not be brought into your houses…”.
The last page of this pamphlet has a manual erasure—the Rebbe of Gur’s name appears without any honorifics so it was erased to preserve his honor.
Printed jacket (detached), stains. A rare, valuable historic item, testimony to the power struggles over Jerusalem’s kollels and the polemic on the subject. Very good condition.
