TWERSKY, MORDECHAI DOV OF HORNOSTEIPEL. Emek Chochmah [discourses on the weekly sidrah]

(CHASSIDISM)

M. L. Hirsch

Satu-Mare

1928

Second edition with twelve pages of additional material including letters from the author to his grandson. With signature and stamps of R. Ya'akov Yoseph Weiss, THE SPINKER REBBE (1916-1988) when resident in Selische

The publisher, Dayan Chaim Halberstam of Satmar, was candidate for the Rabbinate in opposition to R. Joel Teitelbaum. The later eventually won the election after a bitterly contested election. The author, the Hornosteipler Rebbe, was the son-in-law of R. Chaim Halberstam of Sanz