Lev Aryeh – Copy of Rebbe Yitzchak Menachem Danziger of Alexander, Author of Akedat Yitzchak – With His Signatures ...

Lev Aryeh – Copy of Rebbe Yitzchak Menachem Danziger of Alexander, Author of Akedat Yitzchak – With His Signatures and Interesting Ownership Inscriptions
Lev Aryeh on Tractate Chullin, by R. Aryeh Leib Rabbi of Podhaitz (Pidhaitsi). Lviv, 1898.
On the title page, two ownership inscriptions signed by the Akedat Yitzchak, rebbe of Alexander: "Yitzchak Menachem Mendel son of the Rebbe of Alexander"; "…with the help of my Rock and my Redeemer, to Him I raise my soul, may He protect and save, and upon a simple person like myself, may He bestow the light of His Torah, and grant me knowledge and wisdom to reach halachic conclusions, Yitzchak Menachem Mendel son of R. Shmuel Tzvi". Ownership inscriptions on pp. [2b] and 114b: "Rabin J. M. Dancygier / Rabin J. M. Dancygur Alekandrów Lodzi". Many stamps: "Yitzchak Menachem son of the Rebbe of Alexander". Inscriptions attesting that the book belongs to the rebbe of Alexander, and other inscriptions.
Rebbe Yitzchak Menachem Danziger of Alexander (1880-1942), a leading rebbe of his times. He received his education from his grandfather, Rebbe Yechiel, founder of the Alexander dynasty, his father Rebbe Shmuel Tzvi of Alexander, author of Tiferet Shmuel, and his uncle R. Yerachmiel Yisrael Yitzchak author of Yismach Yisrael.
He was appointed rebbe in 1924, after seventy of the most prominent rabbis of Poland who were his father's Chassidim asked him to head the dynasty. The Alexander court expanded greatly under his leadership, until it comprised tens of thousands of Chassidim. He founded the large Beit Yisrael network of yeshivot together with his brother R. Avraham Chaim Danziger, in the memory of his uncle the Yismach Yisrael. He was murdered in the Holocaust together with all his children and grandchildren, leaving behind no survivors to perpetuate this illustrious family. After the Holocaust, the remaining Alexander Chassidim gathered together and appointed his cousin R. Yehuda Moshe Thieberg as their rebbe. The remnants of his teachings were compiled by his Chassidim after the Holocaust, and published in the book Akedat Yitzchak.
[2], 114 leaves. 37 cm. Dry paper. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears to several leaves. New leather binding.