Shapotshnik, Joseph. Collection of Shapotshnik's Yiddish newspapers mostly containing vehement political attacks against the London Beth Din and many of the leading Rabbis of Europe and Eretz Israel

(ANGLO JUDAICA)

London

1924-1937

Includes: Der Londoner Folks Zeitung (The People's Paper), nos. 5-10 (October 1927-March 1928). * Londoner Idishe Fri’eh Press (The London Jewish Free Press), July 1924 (trial issue). * Dos Idishe Vort. May 1925 (specimen copy). * With: Collection of newspaper clippings regarding Shapotshnik and a kosher meat scandal discovered under his authority and the subsequentlegal proceedings that continued until his death in 1937

Includes vitriolic attacks against Rabbis Grodzensky and Kook, the Chofetz Chaim, The Grand Rabbi of Ger and others who opposed Shapotshnik’s contentious halachic rulings. For more on the life of this unusual London Rabbi see H. Rabinowicz, A World Apart: The Story of the Chassidim in Britain (1997) pp.56-66. According to Leonard Prager, these Shapotshnik’s are most scarce. See A Bibliography of Yiddish Periodicals in Great Britain 1867-1967; and Bibliography and Booklore, vol. IX nos.15,120,124,