Ha’ach. Edited by Moshe Rosenblum. Text in Hebrew and Yiddish. Volume One, numbers 1-40.

(CHASSIDISM)

Y. Luria

(St. Petersburg)

1911

FIRST EDITION . All bound into one volume. Opening blank with inscription from the principals of the Yeshiva in Poltova to “HaYeled” Pinchos Mordechai Teitz.

Published by Tomchei Temimim in Lubavitch for the Achei Temimim youth organization found in schools across Russia, a weekly journal for children in Hebrew and Yiddish containing Chassidic stories, biographies, poems and riddles. Of historical importance are the lists of hundreds of names of children (boys and girls) from various towns who were members, contributed their Chanukah or Purim money, answered riddles or became Bar Mitzvah. Included are recorded (noted at the end of the 6th and 19th issue): Chana, Mussya and Sheindel Schneerson, and in the 26th issue, the three Schneerson boys of Yekaterinoslav, Yisroel (Aryeh) Leib, DovBer and Menachem Mendel, who would have been ten years old at the time. Also contains valuable information concerning the network of schools, educational requirements, sources of food and support for the students, the times when the Rebbe speaks especially for them and other interesting details.