Chever Ma'amarim - discourses of Rabbi Yerucham HaLevi in the Mir Yeshiva. Vilna, 1939.
Important first publication of the musar dissertations of Rabbi Yerucham Leibowitz of Mir. Printed at the end of the summer of 1939, at the time the Mir Yeshiva escaped to Vilna fleeing the ravages of war.
At the top of the title page is a handwritten and signed dedication by Rabbi "Isaac son of R' A. Ausband, here in Vilna, Erev Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan 194[6?]". Rabbi Isaac Ausband, 1925-2012 was a prominent student of the Telz Yeshiva. He spent the war years in the Siberian exile and at the end of the war, miraculously reached Vilna. He remained there to serve in the rabbinate and was active in rescuing the remaining survivors and smuggling them to other countries. After a short while, he himself escaped and reached the Telz Yeshiva in the US. There he wed Rebbetzin Chaya, daughter of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch. He taught Torah and fear of G-d for decades and was one of the heads of the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio.
[1], VII, 450, [2] pages. 23 cm. The entire book is a photocopy of stencil printing, with the exception of the first signature (the title page and introduction) which is printed. Good condition. Dry, dark paper. First signature is detached and the original binding is torn.