Kitvei Kodesh – Book of Writings of the Lubavitch Rebbe Rayatz [Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn]. Two volumes. The first volume contains articles from 1940-1942 and the second - from 1943-1944. Stencil printing, Brooklyn, [1940-1944]. Hebrew and Yiddish. The Rayatz, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950, Otzar Harabbanim 8887), the sixth rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, founder of the Tomchei Temimim yeshivot together with his father Rebbe Shalom Dov, became rebbe in 1920. Imprisoned by the Communist government and released in 1927, he later relocated to Poland and from there to Brooklyn, NY, (March 1940). These pamphlets were printed by the "Hassidism Distribution Office" of Rabbi Abraham Paris in Brooklyn and were later bound together. The first volume contains the first discourses of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn in the USA, including articles from the first Purim he celebrated in Brooklyn. Apparently these pamphlets were printed soon after the discourses were delivered in 1940. Ostensibly, these were the first Torah teachings of the Rayatz printed in the USA. Two volumes, [341] leaves; [315] leaves. 21 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and minor wear. Damages to bindings.