Judah ben Bezalel Loewe, (MaHaRa"L of Prague). Be'er HaGolah [theology]. Appended: Three glosses of R. Israel ben Shabthai Hapstein, the Magid of Kozhnitz

(CHASSIDISM)

Aryeh Leib Shapiro, Grandson of the Rabbi of Slavuta

Zhitomir

1859

On front fly, "Shayach Leben Harav MiKantekozev...Yehoshua Heschel Rabinowitz" (see below)

Vinograd, Zhitomir 248

COPY OF R. JOSHUA HESCHEL RABINOWITZ, REBBE OF MONASTRISHTSH. Rabbi Joshua Heschel Rabinowitz (1860-1938), son of R. Isaac Joel Rabinowitz of Kantekozeva, was one of the first Chassidic Rebbes to settle in the United States. His lineage extended back to R. Gedaliah of Linitz, one of the disciples of R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov, the founder of the Chassidic movement. In 1886, R. Joshua Heschel settled in Monastrishtsh and due to his presence there, the town became a major center of Ukrainian Chassidism ,later, he established his court in Uman. Due to the chaotic conditions in the region, the murderous pogroms in Uman (in which his eldest son R. Gedaliah Aaron was killed), and then the brutality of the Communist regime (who arrested the Rebbe and his son Jacob), R. Joshua Heschel fled the Soviet Union, arriving in the United States in 1924. He established in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, a Beth Midrash which became a premier center of Torah and Chassidism. See O. Rand, Toldoth Anshei Shem, p.121; Tz.M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996), p.391; Y. Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America (2006) Vol. II, p. 767 no. 887