Auction 048 Rebbes of Satmar, Sighet and Bobov - Books, Objects, Letters and Manuscripts, Broadsides and Printed Items

Notebooks of Kvittelach and Maamadot Funds – Chassidim of Rebbe Aharele Roth, the Shomer Emunim – Jerusalem, 1937-1946

Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium

Collection of notebooks and leaves, with lists of Maamadot donations received by Rebbe Aharon Roth, the Shomer Emunim, from his Chassidim; including two notebooks of kvittelach for the High Holidays. Jerusalem, 1937-1946.
Lists of donors of Maamadot funds and sums donated; with reports of income and expenditures.
Two notebooks of kvittelach for the High Holidays, 1945 and 1946.
The notebooks list the names of the members of the rebbe's group of followers and their families, with special requests for prayer. The names include some of the rebbe's prominent Chassidim, such as: R. Aharon Kohen dean of the Hebron yeshiva, R. Yisrael Yitzchak HaLevi Reisman, R. Dov Sokolovsky, R. Moshe Mordechai Chanun and his father R. Menachem Nachum Yitzchak Eizik Chanun.


Rebbe Aharon (R. Aharele) Roth – (1894-1947) established groups of men dedicated to the worship of G-d in Budapest and in Satmar, under the name Shomeri Emunim. In 1925, he immigrated to Jerusalem where he founded a similar group of Chassidim. He returned to his followers in Satmar and later Beregsaz, from 1930-1939, returning eventually to Jerusalem where he reorganized his holy group, perpetuated until this day through the Chassidic communities of Toldot Aharon, Shomrei Emunim, Toldot Avraham Yitzchak, Mevakshei Emunah and others
The present notebooks serve as an early, authentic documentation of the rebbe's group of Chassidim, which in those days only numbered several dozen members.


7 notebooks + single leaves, altogether over 100 leaves. Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.
The present records were part of the estate of the Maamadot collector, R. Avraham Mordechai Yozevitch of Batei Ungarin, Jerusalem; his stamps appear in some notebooks.

Rebbe Aharon Roth, the Shomer Emunim of Satmar and Jerusalem
Rebbe Aharon Roth, the Shomer Emunim of Satmar and Jerusalem