Asher Anshel Grünwald. Tuv Yerushalayim [religious travelogue of Eretz Israel].

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

S. Klein

Beregsaz (Berehovo, Hungary / Ukraine)

1934

Yiddish text. With maps and photographs.

In the introduction the author urges the settlement in Eretz Israel of Torah observant Jews to counter the influence of “nationalistic” Jews. He includes many interesting observations of religious practices, including a detailed account of a visit to the Western Wall on the holiday of Shevu’oth, prior to which he witnessed the practice of Jews knocking nails into the wall of the Kotel as a sign that they will, in time, return in peace (author states that the Wall was full of nails).