"Pictures from the Gerrer Court", an album with 20 interesting pictures documenting the life of the Alter Rebbe of Ger, R. Avraham Mordechai Alter, author of Imrei Emet. [United States? second half of the 20th century].
Reprints of vintage photographs. Most of the photographs were taken before WWII, some in the spa town Marienbad (Mariánské Lázně). In most photographs, the rebbe is seen surrounded by his family and Chassidim.
The Alter Rebbe of Ger – R. Avraham Mordechai Alter, author of Imrei Emet (1865-1948), third Rebbe of the Ger dynasty. Son of the Sefat Emet, he was a holy and outstanding Torah scholar. A founder of Agudat Yisrael and prominent leader of Orthodox Jewry before the Holocaust, he served as rebbe to tens of thousands of Ger Chassidim in Poland. Most of his Chassidim and dozens of his descendants perished in the Holocaust, yet the Rebbe miraculously survived and immigrated to Jerusalem, where he rebuilt the Ger Chassidic dynasty and its yeshivot. His surviving sons – Rebbe Yisrael the Beit Yisrael, Rebbe Simcha Bunim the Lev Simcha and Rebbe Pinchas Menachem the Pnei Menachem – all in turn served as rebbes. He is called Imrei Emet after his book, but is better known as "Der Alter Gerrer Rebbe".
20 pictures, approx. 10X13 cm. All are reprints of vintage photographs. Very good condition. Placed in an elegant album ("Classic Album B'klyn"); each leaf with metal corners. The album is in good-fair condition. Stains, wear and some tears.