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Lot #
23080
Auction End Date
3/3/2009 12:24:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
20 Homilies
Title (Hebrew)
20 ùéçåú
Author
[Habad - First Ed.] R. Joseph Isaac Schneersohn
City
Warsaw, Riga, etc.
Publication Date
1928-35
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
First edition. Two volumes, 224:148 mm., light age staining. Very good copies bound in contemporary boards, rubbed and split.
Detailed
Description
20 hasidic homilies delivered by R. Joseph Isaac Schneersohn (1880-1950), sixth rebbe in the Habad dynasty. He assumed the leadership of Habad during the period of the civil war in Russia which followed the 1917 Revolution. An outstanding organizer, he began to reconstruct Jewish life and became the foremost religious leader of Russian Jewry. He fought courageously to resume religious activities under the Communist regime. Under his leadership the Habad movement became the core of a strong Jewish spiritual revival. Although his activities were at first permitted, he was arrested in 1927, and only after powerful pressure within Russia and abroad was freed on 12th–13th of Tammuz of that year, days commemorated by Habad Hasidim as a holiday of deliverance. He left Russia and went to Riga (Latvia), where he organized new Habad centers, and founded Habad organizations throughout the world. In 1934 he settled in Poland and organized a network of Habad yeshivot. After the outbreak of World War II and the German occupation of Poland he was rescued, and went to the United States. With undaunted energy he stimulated, from his headquarters in Brooklyn, a renaissance of Orthodoxy in the United States. R. Joseph Isaac founded modern organizations of Habad, a network of schools and yeshivot, newspapers for adults and children, a flourishing publishing house, and numerous welfare organizations. In 1948 he founded Kefar Habad in Israel. He wrote a notable history of Habad, and published many of his sermons and talks. His wisdom and erudite mind made the Lubavitcher movement the high profile Hasidim, which they still retain.
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
Russia-Poland:
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Subject
Hasidic:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
