Em HaBanim Semechah, on redemption from the final exile, by R. Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal. Budapest: Salamon Katzburg, 1943. First edition.
Fine copy in original binding, with gilt decorations to spine and front binding.
First edition of R. Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal's famous work regarding the importance of immigrating to Eretz Israel, love for Eretz Israel and defense of non-observant people in the Zionist movement. The book includes sharp criticism of the rabbis who hindered immigration to Israel before the Holocaust, and R. Teichtal writes further that the Holocaust came as a punishment for disdain for Eretz Israel.
The book was composed under difficult circumstances, while the author was hiding from the Nazis. He nevertheless quotes hundreds of sources, from memory. The printing of the book was concluded in 1943, mere months before the German invasion and the destruction of Hungarian Jewry.

The author, R. Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal (1885-1945; perished in the Holocaust). Prominent Hungarian rabbi, served as rabbi and dean of Pishtian (Piešťany). In 1942 he fled Slovakia for Hungary for fear of the Nazis. Until the Holocaust, he staunchly opposed Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel, like the rest of Hungarian Chassidic rabbis and his teacher the Minchat Elazar of Munkacs. During the Holocaust, he began to change his views, after studying the topics of exile and redemption and clarifying whether Eretz Israel should be settled by natural means. His conclusions were published in the present book, which he wrote and printed despite great difficulty in Budapest in 1943. When the Jews began to be expelled from Hungary, R. Teichtal fled back to Slovakia. After the suppression of the Slovak Uprising in 1944, he was expelled to Auschwitz, where he perished shortly before the end of the war. He is also known for his Responsa Mishneh Sachir, parts of which he published in his lifetime. His grandson is R. Meir Brandsdorfer, dayan and posek of the Edah HaCharedit in Jerusalem.

[11], 3-360 pages. Approx. 23 cm. Paper somewhat dry. Good condition. Some stains. Stamp to title page. Original binding, with minor damage.