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Anthology of Biblical commentaries, parables, and sayings offer rare combination of keen insight and profound love for their brethren which distinguished the great teachers of the Jewish people wherever they were scattered. Assembled by R. Alexander Zusha b. Aaron Joshua Freedman (1897-1943) one of the foremost Orthodox writers before and during World War II, in the course of which he perished. R. Friedman was an Agudat Israel leader and author of many articles encouraging Jews to observe religion and trust in G-d.
Shanghai Imprints - Apart from J.J. Sulaiman's Kunteres Seder ha-Dorot (1921), the main period of Hebrew printing in Shanghai was during World War II and immediately after (1940–46), when remnants of Lithuanian yeshivot (Mir, Slobodka), as well as Lubavitch Hasidim, found refuge in Shanghai and printed – mostly photostatically – rabbinic, ethical, and hasidic works in limited editions for their own use. To the 80 items enumerated by Z. Harkavy (in Ha-Sefer, no. 9, 1961, 52–3; Hashlamot le-Mafte'ah ha-Maftehot (by S. Shunami, 1966), 3–4) have to be added – at least – the above work by J.J. Sulaiman and S. Elberg's Akedat Treblinka (Yid., 1946). Hebrew newspapers were printed in Shanghai as early as 1904. |
