TEICHTHAL, ISSACHAR SOLOMON. Eim Habanim Semeichah

Rare first edition. Few copies survived the devastation of the war. An historically vital and disquieting tract written by one of the rabbinic leaders of Slovakian Jewry, professing deep distress at the onslaught of Nazism through Europe and the absence of any trace of salvation. Despite Teichtal’s lifetime support of a strong rejectionist view of the Zionist return to the Land of Israel, he now believes this very rejection engendered God to permit the mass slaughter of European Jewry. Teichtal was murdered on deportation to Auschwitz, lynched by Ukranian criminals occupying the same rail-car. See E. Schweid, Bein Churban Leyeshuah (1994) pp. 89-104 Surprisingly, the present copy was once in the library of Rabbi Joshua Deutsch of Katamon, known as a staunch suporter of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satu Mare and his extreme anti-Zionist views