Shema Yisroel! A Royf tzu Teshuva un Tzurikher tzu Yiddiskeit!! [“A Cry for Repentance and a Return to Jewish Observance!!”].

Auction 95 | Thursday, November 11th, 2021 at 11:00am
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinic Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 344
(HOLOCAUST).

Shema Yisroel! A Royf tzu Teshuva un Tzurikher tzu Yiddiskeit!! [“A Cry for Repentance and a Return to Jewish Observance!!”].

Yiddish broadside, issued on card. 19 x 24 inches.

New York: Schulsinger Bros. Ellul 1942

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Issued by the Agudas HaRabbonim of America & Canada. A heart-breaking call for prayer in response to the Nazi savagery that was brutalizing European Jewry. The following year, at this time before the High Holidays, the Rabbinic Association organized the famous “Rabbis' March on Washington.” See https://web.archive.org/web/20070927043335/http://www.wymaninstitute.org/special/rabbimarch/pg02.php.