CHUMASH TORAT GABRIEL, LEVITICUS – JERUSALEM 1926 – IMPRESSIVE LITHOGRAPHY

CHUMASH TORAT GABRIEL, LEVITICUS – JERUSALEM 1926 – IMPRESSIVE LITHOGRAPHY
Leviticus with the Torat Gabriel and Nachal Gevim commentary by Rabbi Gabriel Ze'ev Wolf Margaliyot, a rabbi in Boston, the author of 'Agudat Ezov'. Jerusalem, Zion Print.
The title page includes an impressive colorful lithography of the Tomb of Rachel, the Western Wall, the Tomb of Zechariya and the Cave of Machpela. At the head of the page there is a crown and under it the Ten Commandments. It is rare to find such lithography in a book that was printed those days.
The book is bound with 'Ginzei Margaliyot' – commentary on the Song of Songs, New York 1921 (the joint cover was done by the publisher. There are copies that include also the commentary of Ruth). With prayers for the Sabbath, table of the first day of the Hebrew months from 1912 to 1920, Yotzrot, table of amendments and a concluding essay.
Rabbi Gabriel Ze'ev Wolf Margaliyot was a Torah teacher in several cities in Europe, Horodna among them, where his father-in-law, Rabbi Nachum of Horodna, lived. In 1907 he moved to the USA with his family. He was the rabbi of the 'Adat Yisrael' community in New York. Although he lived in New York, most of his books, as is the book before us, were printed in Jerusalem with the assistance of his son-in-law Azriel Goldberg.
In the introduction to his book 'Charuzei Margaliyot' he explains the reasons that brought him to move to the USA: he "can improve the situation of Judaism in America" and "he greatly feared the revolution that took place in Russia those days and the many pogroms". In his introduction to the second part of the book before us he also refers to these events and to World War I.
416 pp.
Condition: Very Good.