Most of the issues of the Torah anthology Beit Vaad LaChachamim printed in the first 11 years of its existence. The present item includes: * Year 1, issues 1-6, 8 (5682/1922); * Year 2, issues 1-23 (5683/1923); * Year 3, issues 2-25 (5684/1924); * Year 4, issues 1-24 (5685/1925); * Year 5, issues 1-4, 6-9 (5686/1926); Year 6, issues 3, 7-12 (5687/1927); Year 7, issues 1-8, 11-12 (5688/1928), including a supplement to one of the issues; * Year 8, issues 1, 4-10, 13 (5689/1929); * Year 9, issues 1-2, 8-9, 11 (5690/1930); * Year 10, issues 1-2 (5691/1931); * Year 11, issues 5-6 (5692/1932). With Inscriptions, signatures and stamps.

About 120 issues (some issues are duplicates). Varying size and condition. Most issues in good condition.

Beit Vaad LaChachamim

The anthology Beit Vaad LaChachamim was published during the years 1922-1940, originally as a bimonthly and later as a monthly publication (from 1932 on, it began to appear less and less frequently). The anthology was edited by R. Yosef Shimon Pollak (1874-1944), a Belz Chassid who lived in Satmar, and it reflected the position of the "extreme" Orthodox Judaism that was prevalent in Transylvania-Maramureș and Galicia at the time. Important rabbis, dayanim, Torah scholars, laymen and yeshiva students from all over Hungary and beyond participated in the anthology. The first issue of year 1 (Sivan 1922) bore the approbation of R. Eliezer David Grünwald, the Keren LeDavid of Satmar. The periodical occasionally published polemical articles and denunciations of various personages, including the Rebbe of Ger (after he met in Jerusalem with R. Kook), the Minchat Elazar of Munkacs (during his dispute with the Rebbe of Belz, rabbi of the editor of the periodical), leaders of Agudat Yisrael and Zionism, and others. Year 8, issues 4-5 (Tevet-Shevat, 5689) were accompanied by a supplement, "Gilui Milta LeAlma", ten pages containing sharp polemics against the opponents of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum's appointment as rabbi of Satmar.

* Meged Yerachim. The present item contains issues from 1925-1928. Edited by R. Yosef Chaim HaKohen Weiss of Satmar [see below].

* HaMaggid. Many issues of the monthly periodical Meged Yerachim under its new name HaMaggid, starting in 1928 – edited by R. Yitzchak Klein, head of Satmar Beit Din, author of Ohel Yitzchak.

16 volumes (over 100 issues). Varying size and condition. Many duplicate issues. The issues were not thoroughly examined, and they are being sold as is. Inscriptions, signatures and stamps. New bindings.

Meged Yerachim / HaMaggid

The Meged Yerachim monthly appeared with variations to the title page: one printing names R. Yitzchak Klein as editor (previously editor of Ohel Yitzchak – see previous item), while the second printing names R. Yosef Chaim HaKohen Weiss as editor (which is the case in the present issues). The monthly was apparently initially jointly edited by both men, with R. Yitzchak Klein being the content editor and R. Yosef Chaim Weiss being the official editor facing the Romanian authorities. However, they later split up due to a fierce dispute over the position of chief editor. R. Yitzchak Klein eventually left in 1928 and printed the periodical under a new name – HaMaggid. Meged Yerachim continued publication in decreasing frequency until 1930, while HaMaggid continued publication until 1939.

Interestingly, R. Yitzchak Klein used to sign the margins of some of his letters of that period "the true editor of the Meged Yerachim monthly". In the cover of one of the issues of HaMaggid appeared a notice by R. Yitzchak Klein: "I hereby publicly announce that from Rosh HaShanah of this year 5688 [1927] I have stopped editing the monthly Meged Yerachim, of which I was the sole creator, founder and editor for three years, and instead I edit HaMaggid".

See Hebrew description for list of books.

33 books. Varying size and condition. Signatures and stamps. The books were not thoroughly examined, and are being sold as is. New bindings.

* Tefillah Yesharah and Keter Nehora HaShalem (as printed in Berditchev and Radvil Siddurs), with Hanhagot Tovot and Tefillah LeMoshe, and Tehillim. Satmar: Meir Leib Hirsch, 1942. Published by R. Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum (son of R. Aryeh Leibush Teitelbaum of Ujhel, son of R. Shmuel Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Gorlitz, grandson of the Yismach Moshe). With approbations (to Przemyśl, 1929 edition) by Rebbe Aharon Rokeach of Belz and Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (who recounts that his father, the Kedushat Yom Tov of Sighet, used to pray from this Siddur).

Stamp on leaf [2]: "Shmuel Weber of Békéscsaba"; his signature on the title page; signatures and stamps on the title page and endpapers (some in Latin characters) of "R. Yaakov Meir Moskowitz – shochet" in Jerusalem.

* Siddur Beit HaMidrash, prayers for the whole year. Published by Avraham Meir Süsswein. Satmar: Meir Leib Hirsch, [ca. 1942]. Handwritten dedication on reverse side of title page.

* Siddur Tefillat Yesharim, prayers for the whole year according to the Sephardic rite, with additions and laws. Satmar: Meir Leib Hirsch, 1942. Pocket edition.

* Birkat HaMazon HeChadash, with commentary Brachah VeHatzlachah, and service upon rising, laws and additions in Yiddish. Satmar: Meir Leib Hirsch, [ca. 1942].

* Siddur Sivlonot Korban Minchah, according to the Sephardic rite, with Yiddish translation. Satmar: Kahn, [ca. 1940s].

Five volumes. Varying size. Good general condition. New bindings.

Some are rare and undocumented in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book project, and do not appear in the catalog of the National Library of Israel.

Historical document from the first public organization of the "extreme" Hungarian Orthodox rabbis in the United States. The decision to found the Conference was already made in the first gathering in Tevet – "a rabbinical union to guard our holy Torah transmitted to us from our fathers and holy rabbis" – and in the interim a directorship committee of five rabbis and an executive committee of six rabbis were chosen to organize the general gathering that was to choose a permanent leadership for the Central Rabbinical Conference.

The general gathering was scheduled for 4 Iyar, 1955, in the Grand Paradise Hall in Brooklyn. The scheduled events included: appointing members of the leadership, members of the "executive committee", members of various committees, and discussion of various suggestions for the agenda.

The letter is signed by the heads of the "interim directorship committee": Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, R. Yonatan Steif of Budapest, R. Yehoshua Chaim Teitelbaum of Ciężkowice, R. Yitzchak Alter Wagschal of Łańcut, R. Levi Yitzchak Grünwald of Tzelem (Deutschkreutz); as well as the heads of the "interim executive committee": R. Hillel Lichtenstein of Kraszna, R. Yehoshua Grünwald of Khust, R. Yechezkel Shraga Rubin Halberstam of Cieszanów, R. Yissachar Ber Rottenberg of Wodzisław, R. Moshe Teitelbaum of Sighet [author of Berach Moshe, later Rebbe of Satmar], R. Moshe HaLevi Horowitz of Boston. Director: R. Yaakov Segal Leibowitz of Kopisch (Kaposvár).

[1] leaf, official stationery. Approx. 28 cm. Good condition. Folds.