Judah Joshua Falk Israelit. (Poetry and Elegies).

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

(Chelsea, Mass.

1932-38)

Autograph Hebrew Manuscript on paper. Table of contents at end.

cf. Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America 770.

The present volume contains numerous Hebrew poems, many with themes relating to current events: A poem entitled Adolf Hitler; “A man of blood, you are cursed in the mouth of every living being” (pp. 75-77); both an elegy and a eulogy for the Chofetz Chaim (pp. 86 and 99); a poem in honor of the birthday of Maimonides (pp. 132-37); lengthy elegies upon the death of R. Abraham Isaac Kook and the Rogatchover Gaon (pp. 154 and 170); a poem concerning the unrest in Eretz Israel in 1938 (pp. 218-20). The author (1857-1938), active in the affairs of the Agudath HaRabanim, served as Rabbi of Chelsea, Massachusetts from 1895 until shortly before his death.