History:

19th Century CE,  20th Century CE 

Collections: R' Schachter Jewish Heritage Tour of Lita/Poland

Description

Shiur given on a bus in Warsaw and Lodz. Which famous rabbis are buried in Warsaw? What sefarim did the following businessmen write: R Menachem Zemba, R Yosef Engel, R Yechiel Michel Rabinowitz, R Avraham Danzig, and R Efraim Zalman Margolios? Which sefarim did some of the Gerer Rebbes write? Why was the Sefas Emes printed with errors? Why were the Avnei Nezer's students, not able to write sefarim, like the A.N.? Why did R Eliyahu Chaim Meisel of Lodz, rewrite many of the torahs, and why did R Chaim Brisker feel that it was not necessary to do so? Does the Chazon Ish let ashkenazim, wear tifilin written in the Ari print? Was R Menachem Zemba against the Warsaw Ghetto uprising? In which apartment did he have his final seder of Pesach?