Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Haim Nahman Bialik and Rabbi Yisrael Hager walk in to a bookstore...

I have seen many Bialik books in my life and many books owned by the Hager Rabbinic family, but never before a combination of the two. The provenance on a copy of Bialik's sefer Ha'Aggadah which I acquired was rather surprising to me.
This book was signed and stamped several times by Rabbi Yisrael Hager, the Radawitzer Rebbe and his son, Rabbi Yosef Shmuel. The Radawitzer Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Israel Hager, was the first Hasidic rabbi to settle permanently in the United States, in 1913


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