Ateret Shlomo. Takanat agunot from World War I by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Klein, rabbi of Szilagycseh, with supplements by his son Rabbi Yekutiel Klein. Budapest, 1945.
[2], 5-85, [1] pages. Jacket title page. 20.5 cm.
The work relates to releasing agunot from World War I. The author’s son printed the work after the Holocaust, when many questions related to agunot again came to fore. In his introduction, the son records his father’s biography. He was the rabbi of Szilagycseh from the age of 18 [!] and retained his position for sixty years. At the conclusion, the publisher added a “suggestion by the author’s son,” in which he addresses the Torah leaders and notes many difference between the effects of the First and Second World Wars. He includes a discussion of events in the labor camps and the few survivors.
After the title page, there is a list of printed addresses to where comments could be sent. A number of these addresses are covered over in this copy, apparently because they were no longer relevant. One address is for David Giladi in Palestine – his address was corrected by hand. The author and journalist David Giladi was the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Klein. He had moved to Palestine before the war. David Giladi’s daughter is Shulamit Lapid, the widow of Tommy Lapid and mother of Yair Lapid.
Jacket title page. Light tear without loss to the binding. Very fine condition.