Ezrat Nashem – regarding agunot, to clarify and solve the questions of the agunot after the Second World War. By Rabbi Meir Feuerwerger. Frankfurt A.M. – Brussels, 1950. Signed inscription on the endpaper from the author.
Very important work regarding the many aguna questions that arose after the Second World War. The author writes in his introduction: “This book marks the stain on humanity and its degeneration. Humanity has progressed and developed in physical sciences, but it has regressed in ethics and spirituality and is heading downwards to the depths …” He writes at length about the absolute lowliness of humanity during the Holocaust; the great miracle that happened at the gates of Zion and Jerusalem; holds discussions with those who lost their faith in the wake of the tragedy of the Holocaust; and relates the turn of events that caused him to involve himself so intensely in the aguna questions.
With approbations from prominent rabbis including one from Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky [“he toiled and found that the gates of responsa opened to him that were written by the great people of our nation in every generation,”] with a list of rabbis who helped the author write the book.
The author was a student of the yeshivot of Chust, Selish, Unsdorf and Satmar. In 1928, he served as rabbi of the Orthodox community in Frankfurt A.M. In 1939, he fled to Belgium and settled in Brussels. During the war he was active in the rescue efforts. He survived the Holocaust but lost his entire family. After the Holocaust he served as member of the Brussels Beit Din which often dealt with the aguna problem. He moved to London in 1955, where he lead the Montefiore school.
Original binding with gilt text. Light tear at the top of the spine.
Fine condition.