Auction 68
Lot 184:
Booklet, Maor Torah, monthly for Halachic Torah novellae, booklet II published by the Maor Torah committee [the students of the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai], Shanghai (China), 1946. Y. Alenberg Press, Shanghai, Menachem Av, 1946. [2], 43-62, [1] pp. Color title-cover. Some stains. Healthy paper. This copy is rare in its beauty and completeness.
Special, rare booklet that was published by the students of the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai, during their exile there in the years of the Holocaust. Booklet I was published in 1944, the editors hoping it would be published regularly. This second booklet, however, was published only two years later in 1946 and after it, the exiles immigrated to Israel and the USA and no other booklets were published, as noted at the end of the booklet: לצאתנו את העיר. עם סגירת החוברת הנוכחית מסתיימת גם תקופה מיוחדה בחיי קהל תופשי התורה אשר בשנגהאי. חלק הגון מהם עברו לקנדה ואמריקה, והשאר עומדים הכן לצאת את העיר…". See more there on this touching chapter in the history of the glorious yeshiva.
At the beginning of the booklet, Torah novellae by the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Zeev Soloveitchik – the Rav of Brisk. It is stated that more of his Torah novellae will be published in following booklets. In addition, the editors write that they had begun purchasing Torah novellae appearing in manuscripts by Gedolei Yisrael who perished in the Holocaust and they too were supposed to be published in following booklets.
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