Sepher HaZikaron HaZahav, Golden Book, Yeshivath Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch

(CHABAD).

Warsaw-Otwock

1936

Printed in gilt with manuscript additions in a fine, thick calligraphic Hebrew hand. Approximately 90 leaves executed (others blank)

The "Golden Book" recording names of donors in aid of the Yeshivah of Lubavitch in Poland. Yeshivath Tomchei Temimim is the central Yeshivah of Lubavitch, established by Grand Rabbi Shalom Dov-Ber Schneerson in 1897. Following the Communist Revolution in 1917, the Yeshivah was forced underground. When the successor Rebbe, Joseph Isaac Schneerson left the USSR in 1927, the Yeshivah was re-established in Warsaw and in the neighboring town of Otwock. This large record-book records the various methods of fund-rasing on behalf of the Yeshivah and the services the donors can be expected to receive based upon the degree of generosity (see the 29 Takonoth on the opening leaves). The volume is of great interest due to the many names of donors recorded, stemming from across the globe, including: Canada (Montreal and Calgary), England (Manchester and Liverpool), Finland (Helsingfors), Scotland (Edinburgh and Glasgow), Switzerland, etc. The United States is well represented by cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, Rochester, Williamsport, New Haven, Hartford, Providence, Syracuse, Greensboro, Dallas, etc. Donors of note include: Morechai Dubin of Riga, Rabbi Abraham Elya Axelrod of Baltimore, Felix Warburg of New York, Prof. Waldemar (Mordechai Haffkine, etc. Families recorded include: Cunin, Gurarie, Jacobson, Kramer, Plotkin, Rivkin, Schayevitz, Schmerling, Shmotkin, Zalmanov, etc. Also recorded are the names of those who sponsored the donors - including R. Yitzchak Horowitz (known as R. Itche the Masmid). A comprehensive list of approximately eighty names is available upon request.