Auction 12 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Synagogue and Kol Ya’akov Yeshiva in Moscow, 1957 – Photograph Album
Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium
Photograph album, “The festive opening of the Kol Ya’akov Yeshiva in the Muscovite great synagogue, on Sunday, 4th of Shvat, 1957”.
The photographs depict Rabbi Shlomo Shleifer, rabbi of Moscow, who passed away two months later, and Rabbi Yehudah Leib Levine who took over his position as rabbi of Moscow for many years.
The great Muscovite synagogue was open during the communist era under the undercover eyes of the KGB secret agents. Few Jews were granted permission to pray there, especially elders, and this too only as a lip service which the Soviet rule paid to the world. The Kol Ya’akov Yeshiva which opened in the synagogue was also part of this trend. The Yeshiva included ten young men, most of which were natives of Caucasus.
14 photographs. 19X13. A sheet of paper [worn] with caption in Hebrew and Russian is glued on the binding of the album.
The photographs depict Rabbi Shlomo Shleifer, rabbi of Moscow, who passed away two months later, and Rabbi Yehudah Leib Levine who took over his position as rabbi of Moscow for many years.
The great Muscovite synagogue was open during the communist era under the undercover eyes of the KGB secret agents. Few Jews were granted permission to pray there, especially elders, and this too only as a lip service which the Soviet rule paid to the world. The Kol Ya’akov Yeshiva which opened in the synagogue was also part of this trend. The Yeshiva included ten young men, most of which were natives of Caucasus.
14 photographs. 19X13. A sheet of paper [worn] with caption in Hebrew and Russian is glued on the binding of the album.
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