Samuel Zanvil Zarski and Moses David Schiff. Anshei Shem: Leksikon Rabbani Olami [“Men of Note: World Rabbinic Lexicon.”]

Estimate

$100–$150

Hammer price

Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(BIOGRAPHY).

printer

Rohld

Place

Tel-Aviv

Publication

1940

Description

Replete with black-and-white photographic illustrations.

summary

Brief biographies, photographs and addresses of leading rabbis worldwide. This collection printed at the beginning of World War Two reflects the tragic upheavals and displacements of the era. Thus we find Rabbi J.I. Schneerson, the Rebbe of Lubavitch, residing at 494 Stone Ave. in Brooklyn (p. 26, no. 61), and Rabbi S. Taub, the Rebbe of Modzhitz, Poland residing in Vilnius (p. 36, no. 93). Needless to say the Polish and Lithuanian addresses of numerous Rabbis were undergoing their own vituperative dramas.

pp. 44. Original boards. Previous owner’s inscription. 8vo.

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