(The Chofetz Chaim). Nidchei Yisrael.

KAGAN, YISRAEL MEIR OF RADIN.

E. Baumritter

Warsaw

1897

Text in Hebrew and Yiddish. First edition of Yiddish translation. With the word “Mugah” (checked) at top of front endpaper written in the hand of the Chofetz Chaim.

Friedberg, Nun 91.

At a time when vast numbers of Jews were fleeing Russia for America and other distant countries, the Chofetz Chaim issued this compendium containing matters pertaining to faith that he felt was imperative for these Jews to know and maintain, were they to “remain a part of the Jewish people.”