Bidspirit auction | (CHASSIDISM). Di Megillah fun alveltlichen

(CHASSIDISM). Di Megillah fun alveltlichen bavusten chassidishe'n yom tov Yud Tes Kislev. FIRST EDITION. Yiddish. With prefatory letter by R. YOSEH YITZCHAK SCHNEERSOHN pp. 16. Browned. Original printed wrappers, front detached. 12mo. Otwock H. Feigin - Swiat, 1938 This rare ”Megillah” was intended to be read aloud at the traditional Yud-Tes Kislev gathering, a celebration commemorating the release of R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi (founder of Chabad Chassidism) from false imprisonment in St. Petersburg. Otwock, a spa town just south of Warsaw was the home of the Fridiker Rebbe of Lubavitch following his relocation from Riga in 1934. See Haberman, Sha'arei Chabad in: Alei Ayin [S.Z. Schocken Festschrift] (1952), no. 41.