Kuntress Kithvei Kodesh [selected letters of the Rebbes of Slonim]

AUCTION 49 | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

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Kuntress Kithvei Kodesh [selected letters of the Rebbes of Slonim]

FIRST EDITION Original printed wrappers. Sm. 4to W.Z. Rabinowitsch, Lithuanian Hasidism, p. 231, n. 18

Windsheim (Germany): Sender Deutsch for the Chassidei Slonim of Germany 1948

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $350

Includes last letter of Shlomo David Joshua Weinberg, Rebbe of Slonim in Baranovich, Poland, to his followers in Eretz Israel, received Passover Eve 1941. The Rebbe was martyred in the Holocaust. Also includes a pastoral letter of R. Moshe Midner, Rosh Yeshivah of the Slonim Yeshivah "Torath Chesed" in Baranovich. On pp. 48-54, resolutions of the surviving Slonimer Chassidim in the aftermath of the Holocaust. See Y. Alfasi, Ha-Chasiduth (1977), pp.204-5; Tz.M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996), p. 531; W.Z. Rabinowitsch, Lithuanian Hasidism (1970), p. 225