Eisenberg, Shimon Zev. Milchamah Shtoib, Zichronoth fun a Litvishe Palit (1915-1917). [”The Dust of War: Memoirs of a Jewish-Lithuanian Refugee.”]
AUCTION 60 |
Thursday, November 14th,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 274
(WORLD WAR I).
Eisenberg, Shimon Zev. Milchamah Shtoib, Zichronoth fun a Litvishe Palit (1915-1917). [”The Dust of War: Memoirs of a Jewish-Lithuanian Refugee.”]
Klerksdorp, South Africa (i.e. Vilna: Romm) 1935
Est: $150 - $250
An interesting memoir. Reportedly, most of copies of this book were destroyed in a fire in Johannesburg, South Africa. The author relates (pp. 208-10) that he met the Chofetz Chaim and R. Naphtali Trop in exile in Shumiatz, Belarus. When word came that military police were rounding up Jewish refugees and were coming close to the yeshiva, the Chofetz Chaim proclaimed that all gathered should recite Tehilim. Subsequently, when the soldiers arrived they saw the tears of the Chofetz Chaim and his yeshiva students and promptly left.