A Notebook of the Torah Novaelle of a Student in the Mir Yeshiva - Shanghai 1943-5

A Notebook of the Torah Novaelle of a Student in the Mir Yeshiva - Shanghai 1943-5

A notebook of Torah novaelle in the handwriting of a student in the Mir yeshiva who was exiled to Shanghai during the Second World War. The notebook was written while he was in Shanghai with the yeshiva and deals primarily with topics of Aggadah and the weekly Torah portion. Yiddish and some Hebrew. Cramped and legible handwriting. 

At the beginning of the notebook is a list of the names of students, including Pinchas Hirschprong, Moshe Mendelbaum, Avraham Eiger, Anshil Weinhaus and others. At the beginning of each chapter the student noted the date and the place 'Shanghai'. The notebook was written between the dates February 18, 1943 and December 20, 1945, and is replete with novaelle on various topics connected to the weekly Torah portion and aggadah: a bride with beautiful eye does not need to be examined, Avraham and Yishmael. Sdom, the ten commandments, the Jewish People being chosen from all other nations, a maidservant on the seashore saw things that Yechezkel ben Buzi did not see, one whose wisdom exceeds his actions, pride and humility, the salvation of Israel, the exalted level of the Land of Israel, novaelle on the portion of Shmot, creation of man, it is better to go to a house of mourning that to a feast, midrash Shir Hashirim, Yaacov's ladder, and more. At the end of the notebook is a "dictionary" leaf - useful terms for the exiles of Shanghai ['waiting room', 'station', 'train' and more] translated from Yiddish to English [in 1946, a group of the Mir students who were exiled to Shanghai traveled to New York, this student could have been one of them]. 

[32] notebook pages written in cramped and legible handwriting. 20x14 cm. Slight tears on the margins of the cover, stains, fine condition.