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Seventeen of eighteen issues (missing Issue No. 2) of the periodical Knesses Yisroel, which was published by R. Moshe Karelitz (1882-1941), youngest brother of the Chazon Ish, who was killed during the Holocaust.
This journal features Torah essays by some of the greatest Lithuanian Torah scholars. Many of the contributors became leaders of the following generation. These essays were amongst their first to be published.
Includes essays by: R. Elchonon Wasserman; R. Yaakov Yisroel Kanievsky (Steipler Gaon); R. Shimon Shkop; R. Aaron Kotler; R. Moshe Shatskes; R. Shraga Feivel Hindes (son-in-law of R. Shimon Shkop); R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky; R. Chanoch Henoch Eigish (Marcheshes); R. Yisroel Gershon Soloveitchik (son of R. Chaim Brisker); R. Nachman Greenspan; R. Moshe Rosen (Nezer HaKodesh); R. Mordechai Shulman; The Chazon Ish; R. Isser Yehuda Unterman; R. Yitzchak Issac Ha’Levy Herzog; R. Elazar Shach; R. Yechezkel Abramsky; R. Aryeh Pomeranchik of Brisk; R. Shmuel Rozovsky and others, many of whom contributed anonymously.
Throughout the issues are various advertisements. Mostly for recently published seforim including Sefer Chazon Ish and Sefer Achiezer, as well as a Mazel Tov to R. Yerucham Levovitz on his son’s marriage.
At the end of issue fourteen, there is a full page advertisement by R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky for his famous campaign to write a Sefer Torah in memory of the Chofetz Chaim who had passed away the previous year.
The last issue is followed by a single (and only) issue of Torah essays titled Heichal HaTorah published by Yeshivas Mir in 1935 (16 pages).
295, 16 pages. (Missing pages 20-35 as well as the cover page of issue no. 8) Issues 1-12, 27 cm, modern binding (loose pages). Issues 13-18, 33 cm, no binding, loose. Dry paper.
Extremely Scarce.
Opening bid $500