Huge and Rare Collection: Issues of the "Beit Ya'akov" Journal from Poland. 13 Large Volumes

Huge and Rare Collection: Issues of the "Beit Ya'akov" Journal from Poland. 13 Large Volumes

Beit Ya'akov - central journal of the Beit Ya'akov movement in Poland. Yiddish-language journal edited by Eliezer Gershon Friedenson. Lodzash, Warsaw, Krakow. 1924-1939. Valuable historic material for period scholars and historians.

Journal of the large movement founded by Sarah Schenirer, a sacred movement backed by leading Admo"rim and rabbis. Many articles throughout the journals are authored by Sarah Schenirer herself. There are also articles in her memory, as she passed away during the years these issues were printed. The journals also contain hundreds of articles from all leaders and thinkers of the Beit Ya'akov and Agudat Yisrael movements. In each issue, there is an expanded sheet about what is going on in the movement across the breadth of Poland. There are also announcements of various occasions, with thousands(!) of names of students, instructors, teachers and principals in the organization.

The unique journals before us enfold within them the most significant and tragic period in the history of the Jewish people from its inception as a nation - and this from the most interesting perspective, one apparently never researched - the feminine angle! Beginning in 1927 - Europe between the two World Wars, in Poland - the metropolis and center of the Jewish world, in which Admori"m and rabbis gathered and from where guidance for the Jewish people emerged. These journals also discussed the activities of the Chachmei Lublin yeshivah - the largest yeshivah in the world, and obviously, the Beit Ya'akov movement, which brings together the best of Chareidi youth - students and teachers both. It discusses ascent to the Land of Israel - legal and illegal - that students of the Beit Ya'akov movement undertook, and inseparable from that, the revival of the Jewish people in its Land. All this against a backdrop of the Nazi rise to power and the collapse of institutions in the country on its way to making Poland Judenrein and the total annihilation of its Jews, all the way through the issue that was printed in the Land of Israel after the destruction in Europe. In the journals before us, one can view, directly and unmediated, the Jewish phenomenon that preserved the existence of the Jewish people throughout its years in exile: A Yiddishe Mamme [with apologies to our readers, there is simply no translation that can possibly capture this wondrous phenomenon].

[13] volumes with hundreds of issues, 12 volumes in large format and one volume in small format. Overall fine condition: Fragile paper, tears, completeness not examined.