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A long and strange paean to the one of the worst czars the Jewish People had ever known

“The great gaon, Sar haTorah and otzar of yirah, Rav Yehuda Leib Forer, chief rabbi of Holyoke, Massachusetts”

A historic encounter between Rabbi Yolles and the founder of Daf Yomi, Rav Meir Shapiro

The reality of Polish life in the countryside, outside the cocoon of sheltered yeshivah life

Conspicuously absent was an emerging rabbinical leader of the Old Yishuv, Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld

“Rabbi, this is likely the last Ketzos that will ever be sold in America!”