Life in a Hasidic Court in Russian Poland toward the End of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries
Rabbi Simkha Bunem of Warka Departs for the Holy Land
Rumors of my grandfather’s plan to depart for Palestine reached his wife and children shortly after the Russian revolution of 1905. [ . . . ]
The motive for his journey to Palestine was—in the narrative of my grandmother—as follows: Rabbi Mendele of Warka had died after nineteen years in the…
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