Israelson, Shalom. Divrei Shalom [responsa, with rabbinic novellae]

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Moinester Printing

St. Louis

1920

FIRST EDITION. Printed presentation-slip tipped in to front.

Goldman 636.

The author studied under R. Israel Salanter and migrated to America in 1894 where he served as a rabbi in Milwaukee and Chicago. He bemoans here his fate stating that his life has been a chain of tragedies and only his writings give him any purpose for living, “should even one person of a thousand derive pleasure from my works I will be satisfied” (p. 257). In a later work, Derech Shalom, Israelson notes: “Of my first book, Neveh Shalom, only a few copies sold, subsequently more than half the remaining copies were destroyed in a fire” (p. 9).