Lowinger, Yehoshua Yehuda. Zichron HaNesia HaKedoshah. Photograph album of 92 images of the Munkatcher Rebbe’s trip to Eretz Israel and Egypt.

(CHASSIDISM).

(Jerusalem)

1930

Each photograph with caption in Hebrew. A limited issue of (?) albums.

The Grand Rabbi of Munkatch, R. Chaim Elazar Shapira (1872-1937) – author of halachic responsa “Minchath Elazar” – was known for his outspoken views especially against Agudath Israel and Mizrachi. This historic trip was chronicled by his disciple Moshe Goldstein under the title “Masoth Yerushalayim” (Munkatch, 1931) with a description of the Minchath Elazar’s meeting with the elderly Sephardic Haham, Shlomo Eliezer Alfandari, whose photograph appears here on p. 1. The producer of this photograph album Y. Y. Lowinger was one of the participants of this trip. The album portrays the Chassidic Rabbis on the sea-passage, at various holy sites throughout Israel, as well as on expedition astride camels alongside the Pyramids and the Sphinx.