Auction 45
Lot 214:
First and second sections (separate title page for each), chiddushim on various issues in halacha and likkutim by Rabbi Yosef Shaul HaLevi Natanson, Rabbi of Lviv, the Shoel u’Meishiv. [1], 163; [1], 50 pages. First title page has tears and tape. Stains, a few defects and light tears in the margins of some pages. Otherwise good condtion.
The first page has the stamp of the Admor Rabbi Menachem Mendel Alter of Gur. On the title page is the stamp and signatures of his son, Rabbi Haim Elazar Alter of Jerusalem. A number of small notes in the book.
Admor Rabbi Menachem Mendel Alter of Povnitz hy”d (1878-1942) was the youngest son of the Sfat Emet and the brother of the Imrei Emet of Gur. He was a leader of Polish Jewry between the two world wars. He served as head of the Rabbinical Assembly in Poland, a member of the Council of Torah Sages of Agudas Yisrael. He was a founder of Haredi journalism in Poland. During the Shoah he was a leader of the Haredi community in the Warsaw Ghetto. He perished along with his family in the Treblinka death camp.
His son, Rabbi Haim Elazar, moved to Jerusalem and managed the Sfat Emet yeshiva. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Henich Vidislevsky.
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