Auction 43
Lot 044:
Ohel Rachel, including: “MiSaviv L’Chassidut, a bibliography: A) on printings; B) on Books; C) On Yiddish books, People, various, appendix. Made by Rabbi Birech. Facsimiles. New York 1980.” Overall good condition.
Ohel Rachel is an important bibliographic work including artiles and studies by the Chassidic researcher Rabbi Haim Lieberman, secretary of the Rayatz, published at different times in a variety of platforms. Throughout the years he published hundreds of articles in a variety of journals on bibliographic matters, in his role as Chief Librarian of the Personal Library of the Rayatz.
When he reached a more senior age, he began to gather his articles with the help of the researcher Rabbi Yehoshua Mondshein. The first book was published in 1980 with research published over the years in Hebrew. Lieberman chose to name the book Ohel Rachel and hinted in the title to the initials of his own name and that of his fiancée murdered in the Shoah.
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