Hagadah with commentaries, including Ne’oth Deshe by Samuel David Halevi Ungar of Nitra. Edited by Sholom Moshe Halevi Ungar

The Introduction by the author’s son tells with great pathos the biography of his father, with special emphasis on his final tragic years during the Holocaust. For thirty-nine years Rabbi Ungar led the famed Yeshivah of Nitra, Slovakia. This glorious chapter came to a close in Elul, 1944, when Ungar was forced to flee from the Nazis by hiding in the countryside where he died a month short of the German defeat. The rabbi’s library of some 8,000 volumes was burnt by the Nazis in the winter of 1945, however his manuscripts, including the present commentary to the Hagadah, survived. The tragic end of the Nitra Yeshivah, as well as the clandestine rescue organization associated with it, was recorded by the Rabbi’s son-in-law R. Michael Dov Weissmandel in his memoir Min ha-Meitzar. See EJ, Vol. XVI, cols. 418-419