מכירה 25

פריט 135:

Last holy work printed in Vilna after the Shoah began: Hever Ma’amarim by Rabbeinu Yerucham HaLevi Leibowitz of Mir—first edition, Vilna, early 1940, copy of the Mashgiach Rabbi Hirsch Plai

המכירה תחל בעוד __ ימים ו __ שעות

מחיר פתיחה: $120

עמלת בית המכירות:

From conversations of Rabbeinu Maran Yerucham HaLevi Leibowitz of Mir at the Mir yeshiva from 1934-1935, written by his students. VII, [1], 450, [2] pages. First pages detached, with tears in the corns, no damage to text. Light stains, generally good condition. The blank front page has the handwritten signature of the mashgiach of the Hevron Yeshiva, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Plai.

In the book Orot MeOfel (Yaakov Landau, New York 1957), he brings a bibliographic list of books printed in Europe during the Shoah, and in those lists it appears that the last book printed in Vilna was printed in 1938, but according to the cover of this book, it was printed at the end of 1939 and is probably the last Holy Book printed in Vilna when the Holocaust broke out. Probably because of the tension already evident at that time, the entire book was reproduced in duplicate except for the title page and the introduction arranged in print. Rabbi Yeruham served as mashgiach of Yeshivot in Lithuania where there was a Mir Yeshiva for many years, where the conversations recorded in this important book were carried by Yeshiva students.