(FRENCH JUDAICA)

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 107

(FRENCH JUDAICA)

Eleven issues of Yechouroun. A monthly bulletin of the Orthodox Jewish Youth Movement of France: No. 1 (Dec. 1944); No. 2 (January 1945); No. 3 (Feb. 1945); No. 4 (March 1945); No. 5 (April-May 1945); No. 8 (Nov. 1945); No. 9 (Dec 1945); No. 11 (February 1946); No. 12 (March-April 1946); No. 13 (May 1946); No. 15 (Aug.-Sept. 1946). * With: Five issues of Yechouroun bi-weekly correspondence course, under the direction of Benno Gross, Strasbourg (19 October-14 December 1946). * And: Three issues of Yechourun Interior Bulletin: Year 1, No. 2 (supplement to bi-weekly course no. 31 of 28-6-46); Year 1, No. 3 (31 July, 1946); Year 1, no. 4 (supplement to bi-weekly course No. 1 of 19-10-46)

(1944-46)

Est: $800 - $1,200

The youth movement Yechouroun was founded in 1926 by members of the Orthodox community of Strasbourg under the direction of Rabbi Robert Brunschwig. The ideology of the movement was essentially that of Hirschian Torah im Derech Eretz, (Jeschurun had been the name of Rav Hirsch's German journal.) On the practical level, Yechouroun identified with "Ezra" in Eretz Israel, the youth movement of Poalei Agudath Israel, midway between Agudah and Mizrachi in orientation. Instrumental in the direction of the movement were activists Marc Breuer (great-grandson of Rav S.R. Hirsch) and Theo and Edith Klein. Contributors to the publications were such luminaries as: Rabbi Elie Munk (Paris), Profs. André Neher and Renée Bernheim Neher (Strasbourg), Rabbi J.J. Weinberg (Montreux), et al. (Prof. Marc B. Shapiro informs us that the French article by R. Weinberg is an abridgment of a Hebrew piece in his collection of essays, Li-Pherakim.) The Divrei Torah in the booklets are a fine example of the French Jewish intellectual tradition. Yechourons's contribution to the revitalization of French Jewry as it emerged from the devastation of World War II is inestimable. It is this crucial period in the annals of the movement that is contained in our collection