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Lot 161

Collection of Photographs – Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar at Various Events

Twenty photographs of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, in various periods of his life. In the photographs, the Rebbe is seen sitting next to Rebbe Yekutiel Yehudah Halberstam of Sanz-Klausenburg; at the window of a train in one of his visits to Eretz Israel; sitting at the table of honor at a large council of rabbis; immersed in prayer, adorned with Tallit and Tefillin; lecturing to students; surrounded by followers in a Jerusalem Beit Midrash; sitting in a garden in Switzerland next to several laymen; visiting Talmud Torah Satmar in Bnei Brak, next to his attendant R. Yosel Ashkenazi and the director of the institution R. Ben Tzion Jakobowitz; at graves of Tzaddikim and the Arizal in the Safed cemetery; sitting at the table of honor at a gathering (while the Rebbe of Pápa is giving an inspirational speech at the pulpit); sitting at the table of honor next to R. Yitzchak Grünwald of Tzelem (Deutschkreutz) at a large protest; on his way to the graves of the disciples of the Baal Shem Tov in the Tiberias cemetery; testing the children of Talmud Torah Satmar in Jerusalem during his visit in 1955; conversing with R. Shmuel Wozner in Bnei Brak; and more.
Some photographs are captioned in the margin. One photograph is captioned on the back in pen.
Some of the photographs are original prints. Three of the photographs are labeled on the back with the stamp of the photographer Joseph Herczberg, and another photograph carries the stamp of the Studio "Photo Refaeli Bnei Brak".

20 items. Size varies from approx. 5x7 to 18x11.5 cm. Good condition. Damage and light wear.