This pamphlet is called Olam Chadash and Olam Hafuch, because of the new and upside-down things done, as described inside, in our time, may Hashem reverse them and straighten our hearts for good, printed in London in 1789.” Anonymously published, the introduction ends with the words: “So said by a young [tzair] of the Jewish people”. Friedberg, Beit Akad Sefarim (vol. 3, p. 777, #221) attributes it to Rabbi Avraham bar Shlomo Nansich-Hamburger.
The year that this pamphlet was published the French Revolution broke out, which inundated Europe with liberal ideas and modernization that also permeated the Jews of the continent who began to learn foreign languages and be meikel with mitzvot. This essay was intended to protest these phenomena and try to stop the drift. [1], 7 leaves. No binding, a few moth holes (mainly in the margins), tape on the first and last leaves. Stains, overall good condition.
Signature and stamp of ownership, notes and corrections from Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Chazan of Lubisch in Poland (1842-1928), son of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch of Plotzk, a student and chacham known in his generation. The Natziv printed the book Rina shel Torah from his writings (and dedicated one of his one books to him). He published articles in religious journals and wrote “Siach Yitzhak” (Poltova 1913), and additional works that remain in manuscript.
