Group of Seven Original Photographs documenting the visit of Grand Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneerson of Lubavitch (the “Friediker Rebbe”), to Lakewood, N.J. on the 8th Nissan, 1940. Hosted by Nissan Waksman, Rabbi of Lakewood.

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1940

Provenance: The Late Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu Axelrod, Baltimore. Interestingly, the photographs demonstrate Sholom Ber Gurarye, Rabbi Schneerson’s only grandson, in close proximity to his grand-father (partially removed from published versions). For detailed documentation of this visit see E.J. Zaklikowski, America is No Different (Hebrew) (1999), pp.55-64.