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Lot #    23796
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 12:41:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ha-Dat ve-ha-Tehiyyah ha-Le'ummit
Title (Hebrew)    הדת והתחיה הלאומית
Author    [Only Ed. - Zionism] R. Isaac Nissenbaum
City    Warsaw
Publisher    Levine Epstein
Publication Date    1920
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Description		    Only edition. 159, [1] pp., illus., 205:140 mm., heavy age staining, some chipping, bound in the original boards, rubbed.
          
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Description		    Short biographies of Hovvei Zion rabbis by R. Isaac Nissenbaum (1868–1942), rabbi, Hebrew writer, and religious Zionist in Poland. Born in Bobruisk, Belorussia, Nissenbaum was ordained as a rabbi. He settled in Minsk, where he began his Zionist activity. When the yeshiva of Volozhin was closed in 1892, he became head of the secret nationalistic association of that yeshiva, Nezah Israel, an office which he held until 1894, when he moved to Bialystok. There he became Samuel Mohilever's secretary. From then on he was a central figure in the Zionist movement, particularly among the Orthodox Jews. After Mohilever's death, Nissenbaum served as a Zionist preacher, traversing towns and townlets in Russia, Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania. He used midrashic elements in his Zionist preachings and had a considerable influence on Orthodox Jews. In 1900 he settled in Warsaw and became a regular preacher in synagogues and other places. He was an active member of Mizrachi from its beginning, a member of the executive of the Polish Zionist Organization, and one of the heads of the Jewish National Fund.

Beginning in 1889, Nissenbaum wrote many essays on current events, Zionism, and religious Zionism, as well as personal memories and several exegetical books. He was one of the editors of Ha-Zefirah, and after World War I, editor of Mizrachi's weekly in Poland. He edited a series of republished classical books in Jewish studies. The first explanatory pamphlet concerning the Jewish National Fund was written by him (1902). During World War II he remained in the Warsaw ghetto and was murdered there.

Among his homilies are Derushim ve-Homer li-Derush (1903), Derashot le-Khol Shabbatot ha-Shanah ve-ha-Mo'adim (1908, 19232), Hagut Lev (1911, 19252), and Imrei Derush (1926). In the field of religious Zionism he wrote Ha-Dat ve-ha-Tehiyyah ha-Le'ummit (1920), Ha-Yahadut ha-Le'ummit (1920), and a monograph on Samuel Mohilever (1930). He also published an autobiography entitled Alei Heldi (1929, 19692). In 1948 a selection of his writings was published in Israel under the editorship of E.M. Genichovsky, and in 1956 a selection of his letters was edited and published by I. Shapira.
          
Paragraph 2    פרקי-היסטוריא קצרים, מאת יצחק ניסנבוים, עם תמונותיהם של גדולי הרבנים, "חובבי ציון" וציוניים; ותמונות מושבות עבריות בארץ ישראל. הוצאת הסתדרות "מזרחי" בפולין...

נסדר בדפוס מ. צדרבוים, פיטרקוב, ונדפס בדפוס האחים לווין-עפשטיין,

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0152584; I. Shapira, Ha-Rav Yizhak Nissenbaum (1951); EJ
        
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