Gedulath Yoseph.

Laszczow is a small town in Eastern Poland near Lublin. On the “colossal popularity” of this book, which went through many editions especially in Russia, see H. Liberman, Ohel Rachel Vol. II pp. 5-9. Since the book recounts the Biblical tale of the descent of Josephs into slavery in Egypt and his separation from his mother, Liberman writes passionately how the work touched upon the deepest, innermost feelings of the Jewish mother’s heart whose young sons were forcibly conscripted into the military service of the Czar under the brutal Cantonist program of Russia. <<* Bound with: >> Shevet Mussar. Translated into Yiddish. Dyhernfurth, 1804.