Shapotshnik, Joseph. Collection of Shapotshnik's Yiddish newspapers mostly containing vehement political attacks against the London Beth Din and many of the leading Rabbis of Europe and Eretz Israel
AUCTION 15 |
Tuesday, March 12th,
2002 at 1:00
Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners
Lot 67
(ANGLO JUDAICA)
Shapotshnik, Joseph. Collection of Shapotshnik's Yiddish newspapers mostly containing vehement political attacks against the London Beth Din and many of the leading Rabbis of Europe and Eretz Israel
London: 1924-1937
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Includes vitriolic attacks against Rabbis Grodzensky and Kook, the Chofetz Chaim, The Grand Rabbi of Ger and others who opposed Shapotshnik’s contentious halachic rulings. For more on the life of this unusual London Rabbi see H. Rabinowicz, A World Apart: The Story of the Chassidim in Britain (1997) pp.56-66.
According to Leonard Prager, these Shapotshnik’s are most scarce. See A Bibliography of Yiddish Periodicals in Great Britain 1867-1967; and Bibliography and Booklore, vol. IX nos.15,120,124,