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Lot #    12344
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 1:20:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ha Admor mi Belz
Title (Hebrew)    האדמו'ר מבלז: תולדות חייו והסתלקותו
Author    [Hasidim] Agudas Yisrael
City    [Jerusalem]
Publisher    HaModia
Publication Date    [1957]
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 26 pp., illus. port., 263:207 mm., light age staining, creased on folds. A very good copy bound as published.
          
Detailed
Description		    Published by the daily newspaper HaModia, this pamphlet gives a biography of the Rebbe of Belz, R. Aaron Rokeach (1880–1957), and details his death and funeral.The Belzer Rebbe, like his father, lived an ascetic life, and instituted a lengthy order of prayers. The influence of Belz Hasidism had considerable impact on Jewish life in Galicia because its adherents entered all spheres of communal affairs and were not afraid of the effects of strife within the community. Many rabbis accepted the authority of the Belz zaddikim. In the parliamentary elections the Belz Hasidim did not join the Jewish lists, but voted for the Polish government party. On the outbreak of World War II, R. Aaron escaped to Sokol and then to Przemysl where 33 members of his family were murdered. After confinement in the ghettos of Vizhnitsa, Cracow, and Bochnia, he was sent to Kaschau (now Kosice), then in Hungary, at the end of 1942 and subsequently to Budapest. In 1944 he managed to reach Erez Israel. There he revised his political views and directed his followers to support the Agudat Israel. He established yeshivot and battei midrash throughout the country. His home in Tel Aviv became the new center for the followers of Belz Hasidism throughout the world. His grave is a place of pilgrimage where many gather on the anniversary of his death.
          
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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