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Bidding Information
Lot #    20956
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 11:17:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Saul Jedidiah E. Taub of Modzhitz
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מהאדמו'ר ממאדזיץ
Author    [Ms. - Hasidim]
City    Tel Aviv
Publication Date    1939
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 134:208 mm., light age staining, typewritten letter, signed in ink and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Saul Jedidiah Eleazar b. Israel Taub (1887-1947), was born in Ozarov. An erudite scholar he was av bet din in Rakov and Karzow. In 1929 he moved to Otwock near Warsaw and after his father's passing became Admor of the Modzhitz Hasidim. He combined Torah with music, and popularized the Modzhitz melodies throughout the Jewish world, composing hundreds of tunes. He edited and published his father's sermons with his own in Divrei Yisrael (Lublin, 1901–04; Warsaw, 1912; Warsaw, 1930; New York, 1931) and in the Passover Haggadah, Ishei Yisrael (Warsaw, 1938); he also edited and published the booklets Tiferet Yisrael - Kunteres Ma'amarim (Warsaw, 1936–38; Brooklyn, 1941–47). He died in Tel Aviv.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica