ALTER, YEHUDAH ARYEH LEIB. Chidushei HaRim VeGur Aryeh al HaTorah VeMassechet Avoth [Chassidic discourses and letters]. Edited by Abraham Yitzchak Dzubas.
AUCTION 53 |
Thursday, December 08th,
2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
Lot 78
(CHASSIDISM).
ALTER, YEHUDAH ARYEH LEIB. Chidushei HaRim VeGur Aryeh al HaTorah VeMassechet Avoth [Chassidic discourses and letters]. Edited by Abraham Yitzchak Dzubas.
Bilgoray: 1912
Est: $200 - $300
A work that was suppressed by Gerrer Chassidim who maintained that it included private correspondence not intended for public knowledge. Particularly controversial are two letters (pp. 48-50) concerning the Sephath Emeth before he became the official Rebbe.
Regarding the editor Dzubas, a resident scholar at Sir Moses Montefiore’s Ramsgate estate, see his autobiography, Zichronoth Mene'urai Ve'ad Heinah (1944) esp. pp. 25-26 concerning this particular work.