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A rare booklet summarizing the work of Agudat Israel in Germany. Munich 1947 - many photographs

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A special booklet that was published in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Poalei Agudat Israel movement in Germany, "Illustrated by the PAI Almanach", edited by David Adler. Munich, 1947.

The booklet contains many photographs of almost all of them on entire page, of Jewish groups established by Agudat Israel in the various cities of Germany (Berlin, Bamberg, ulm, Badenheim, and others), along with photographs of the Rabbis who founded and worked to establish them before and after the war, with an emphasis on Institutions that received the Holocaust survivors, and the organization for immigration to Israel after the Holocaust. As well as articles in Hebrew and Yiddish reviewing the movement's activities after the immigrants arrived in Eretz Israel (there are also a number of rare photographs showing Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Kahneman alongside Jewish German immigrants in Eretz Israel). At the end of the booklet are two pages with a special design in honor of Dr. Natan Birnbaum, secretary of Agudat Israel.

59 pages, 33 cm. Spine reinforced with adhesive tape. Slight tears at margins of title page. general condition good.

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85. A rare booklet summarizing the work of Agudat Israel in Germany. Munich 1947 - many photographs