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Two works by R. Judah Leib ben Eliezer Lipman Yafo. The first, Shelomim le-Riv Zion, is on the holiness of Erez Israel and opposed to the resettlement of Erez Israel and in defense of Hibbat Zion (Hovevei Zion). The title, Shilomim le-Riv Zion is from the verse, “recompenses for the cause of Zion” (Isaiah 34:8). There is an approbation from R. Jacob David וואלקאווישק of Slutzk, dated, “The land shall not be sold forever” (Leviticus 25:23). There is an introduction from the author and then the text, which is in a single column in square letters. The text is divided into ma’amrim which are subdivided into chapters. Shilomim le-Riv Zion is written from a religious perspective.
Hibbat Zion (Love of Zion), the movement that constituted the intermediate link between the forerunners of Zionism in the middle of the 19th century and the beginnings of political Zionism with the appearance of Theodor Herzl and the First Zionist Congress in 1897. The adherents of Hibbat Zion, called Hovevei Zion ("Lovers of Zion"), were a widespread movement among the Jewish masses of Russia and Rumania, but groups of Hovevei Zion also existed in Western Europe and in the United States. Originally, the declared aim of Hibbat Zion was not different from that of its predecessors, the forerunners of Zionism, and of the subsequent political Zionist movement, namely, to solve the problem of the abnormal Jewish life in the dispersion by a return of the Jewish people to Erez Israel.
The second work is a eulogy for R. Mordecai ben Joseph |
