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Auction 48 · Lot 301
(CHASSIDISM).
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- $1,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
(Tashkent)
Publication
(1960-62)
Description
Five notebooks [bichelach] written in Hebrew and Yiddish containing discourses and talks by Grand Rabbis Sholom Ber and Joseph Isaac Schneersohn of Lubavitch:
VeHu KeChathan Yotze MeChupatho. ( Published SepherHaMa'amorim (1897) page 148). * Tik'u Bachodesh Shophar. * In der Aliyath Neshamah fun Rabbenu HaBesht. * In der Haphtorah fun Shemini Atzereth
summary
Despite the intense authoritarianism of the Communist regime of the Soviet Union, Lubavitcher Chassidim produced "samizdat," or underground literature for their network of secret yeshivoth. The discourses of R. Joseph Isaac Schneersohn (1880-1950) were more likely to be circulated by the Russian Chassidim, for the ability to transmit from New York the writings of his successor, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was plagued with intense difficulties.
Although there is no indication where in the Soviet Union these notebooks were penned, the consignor, a recent immigrant from Uzbekistan, relates they are from Tashkent, a remote city in Soviet Central Asia where a number of adherents of Chabad settled, originally as refuge from the German Nazis