Partial first edition. 32 pp., octavo, 197:135 mm., light age staining. A very good copy not bound.

Pro-Zionist articles by several prominent rabbinical leaders reprinted by the Mizrahi movement with the addition of an article by R. Judah Leib Fishman. Abraham Jacob Slucki (1861–1918), Hebrew writer. Born in Novogorod Severski, Slucki began publishing articles in Ha-Meliz in 1884 and became assistant editor of the periodical during the editorship of the poet Judah Leib Gordon (1887–88). The continued publication of his articles, even after the termination of his editorial activities, helped make Ha-Meliz into a paper of a strong Jewish nationalist character. He was particularly instrumental in disseminating the ideas of Hibbat Zion among the Orthodox. His anthology Shivat Ziyyon (1–2, 1891, and a few subsequent editions), which was a collection of the writings of the greatest rabbis of the generation favorable to the Jewish national idea, was very influential among these groups. He was among the originators of the idea of Mizrachi and, together with Isaac Reines, helped to establish the movement; he even gave it its name. Slucki was murdered in a pogrom in the town of his birth.

Hebrew Description

מכתבים ומאמרים מאת גדולי ישראל ע"ד ישוב ארץ ישראל. נדפסו... בווארשא בשנת תרנ"א [!] ואח"כ בשנת תר"ס... ועתה יו"ל (עפ"י הסכמת ראשי ומנהלי המזרחי פה) ע"י דניאל ראזענטהאל. חוברת ראשונה.

עמ' [ד]: "ג החלטות... שנתקבלו בהועידה השלישית של ה'מזרחי' באייר התרע"ו בשיקגו". עמ' כד-ל: "מאמר מאת הרב יהודה ליב הכהן פישמן [מימון] ... הראיתם את הארץ?" - תוספת שנוספה בהוצאה זו. עם "תולדות הרבנים בעלי המכתבים" מאת הרב י"ל מימון.