LANDMAN, URI OF PUDOLIA. Eulogy for Menachem Mendel Hager, Grand Rabbi of Vizhnitz and R. Chanoch Henach of Alesk. Also mentioned is R. Avraham Yaakov of Sadiger

(CHASSIDISM)

Pudolia

1885

Manuscript on paper. Fine Ashkenazic Cursive Script

Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vizhnitz, son of R. Chaim of Kosiv and son-in-law of R.Yisrael of Rizhin had thousands of followers; he authored the “Tzemach Tzedek.” R. Chanoch of Alesk, son-in-law of R. Shalom Rokeach of Belz authored the “Lev Sameach.” The author, a relative of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vizhnitz, was the son of R. Tzvi Hirsch of Strelisk. His other works were published posthumously under the title “Or Yitzhar.”