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Auction 51 · Lot 92

Dos Yiddishe Licht, Vechentlicheh Zhournal far Chizuk HaDath [“The Light of Israel. Weekly Periodical to Perpetuate and Strengthen Traditional Judaism.”]

Estimate
$600–$900
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Place

New York

Publication

1923-24

Description

In Yiddish and English with a section in Hebrew. Two volumes with 66 consecutive issues bound in.

summary

A publication initiated and financed by Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt. According to the biography by the Cantor's son, Rosenblatt's unswerving financial commitment to the publication resulted in personal bankruptcy. See S. Rosenblatt, Yossele Rosenblatt: The Story of His Life (1954) pp. 221-55. Dos Yiddishe Licht, contains a vast range of news items relating to Orthodox Jewish life in the 1920's, particularly in relation to the United States. Also includes many important articles by such luminaries as R. Chaim Yechezkel Moseson, Principal of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath and Tifereth Jerusalem; Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, of Scranton, later the Principal of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath; Rabbi Yehuda Heshel Levenberg of New Haven; Rabbi J. E. Henkin; Rabbi Mordecai Aaron Kaplan, of Harlem, later the Rabbi of Cong. Bnei Yehudah of Borough Park; Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, Rabbi Dr. I. Herzog, etc.
Lacking issue 29. Few leaves frayed or browned, few covers removed. Modern boards. Folio.
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