Zarski, Samuel Zanvil and Schiff, Moses David. Anshei Shem: Leksikon Rabbani Olami [“Men of Note: World Rabbinic Lexicon.”]

Estimate: $100–$150
Hammer price: $150

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(BIOGRAPHY).

Place

Jerusalem-Tel-Aviv

Publication

1940

Description

Replete with black-and white photographic illustrations

summary

Brief biographies, photographs and addresses of leading rabbis worldwide. This collection printed at the beginning of World War Two reflects the upheavals and displacements of the era. Thus we find Rabbi J.I. Schneerson, the Rebbe of Lubavitch, residing at 494 Stone Ave. in Brooklyn (p.26, no. 61), and Rabbi S. Taub, the Rebbe of Modzhitz, Poland residing in Vilnius (p. 36, no. 93)

pp. 40. Contemporary boards. 4to

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