Collection of original letters by the Ba’al Shem Tov and his disciples, based upon reliable and accurate copies. Includes comments by Chaim Bloch. Vienna-Berlin, [1923].
Includes “negotiation between bureau of court of Kaiser in Vienna and office of president in Lvov regarding the famous Rebbe Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin...”, and “original letter” by the Maharal of Prague regarding the formation of the Golem [dummy]. Contains autographs of Chassidic giants and pictures.
According to many this book is a sophisticated forgery of the publisher, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Ephraim Bloch (1881-1973), talented author and polemicist, who emigrated from Vienna to the United States prior to the Holocaust. Bloch published many books, including the three sections of the book Dovev Siftei Yeshenim – Rabbinical letters in opposition of Zionism, which also appear to be forgeries.
Printed card [in German], with stamp of Bloch, inside book.
111, [1] pages. 23 cm. Very good condition. Printed cardboard cover [with tears].