Lubavitch in Hungary
The night before I left Budapest to return to New York, I phoned Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, the Lubavitch emissary in Hungary for for some information. When I apologized for phoning […]
Mossad Harav Kook’s Encyclopedia of Hasidism
In his introduction to the first volume of Mossad HaRav Kook’s Hebrew Encyclopedia of Hasidism, which appeared in 1960 and which featured complete bibliographies of Hasidic writings, arranged according to […]
Tzvi Yair, An Anonymous Hebrew Poet
I have in front of me a volume of Hebrew poetry entitled “Gesharim” (Bridges). It was printed in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1942, and was one of the small number […]
Reb Chaim Liberman’s “Ohel Rachel”
Many know Reb Chaim Liberman, more have heard about him, but only very few know of his real greatness in the world of Jewish scholarship. Though he is eighty-eight—until one […]