Huge, Rare Collection: Dozens of Shanghai Prints - Library of the Last Remnant of the Shanghai Exile

Huge, Rare Collection: Dozens of Shanghai Prints - Library of the Last Remnant of the Shanghai Exile

Uncommon and valuable collection comprised of dozens of sefarim dealing with all areas of hidden and revealed Torah, printed by Jews in Shanghai, China, where they had fled from various cities in Europe to escape the Nazi enemy. Some of the sefarim were printed by students at the various yeshivahs - the Lithuanian-style Mir, Chassidic Chachmei Lublin, and Tomchei Temimim of Chaba"d. Some were printed by organizations such as Agudat Yisrael, and some by private individuals (it is reasonable to assume that the distribution of the latter was smaller). The sefarim were printed from 1942-1946, and they include a high percentage of all the sefarim printed by the European exiles at the time.

Provenance: Private library of the mighty gaon Rabbi Yosef Segal Horowitz, rosh yeshivah of Chiddushei HaRi"m, for decades. Rabbi Yosef was a student at the Mir yeshivah, and despite his relative youth, he had the privilege of studying b'chavruta with the leading student there, Rabbi Yonah Karpilov, author of Yonat Ilem. When the main group from the yeshivah was exiled to Shanghai, he joined them, and this is where he acquired these sefarim. Rabbi Yosef passed away about two months ago at the age of about 102, and he is considered the last remnant of the Mir yeshivah in the Shanghai exile.

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a detailed lists of the scholarly, Kabbalistic and Chassidic works and Torah journals in this collection printed in Shanghai, along with a list of sefarim that were not printed in Shanghai, and a brief biography of the mighty gaon Rabbi Yosef Segal Horowitz.

Total of [37] titles in [36] sefarim and booklets. Various sizes. 

Overall moderate condition. Detached leaves and groups of leaves, tears (some with blemishes and lack in the text), usage and aging stains. Lacking some bindings, many are detached.