Collection of five books printed at various times from the library of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, with the original bindings from the Rebbe's library in the United States [made ca. 1950s].

All the books and the bindings also contain catalogue inscriptions made during the arrangement of the Satmar Rebbe's library in his home in the United States. One of the books contains a stamp of the Rebbe from his tenure as Rabbi of Carei, and the other books contain a stamp reading: "Yoel Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Irshava and the region". [We surmise that these stamps were placed on the Satmar Rebbe's books at a date later than his tenure in Irshava – see Lot 185].

• Chen Tov, sermons on the Torah by R. Tuviah HaLevi. [Prague: Avraham of Heide at printing house of Yehudah son of Yaakov Katz Gershuni, 1618-1624]. Lacking title page and fourth leaf containing end of introduction.

• Torat Yekutiel, commentary on Yoreh Deah, sections 1-111, with responsa, by R. Refael Katz [R. Refael HaKohen of Hamburg]. Berlin: printer not indicated, [1772].

• Eliyah Rabba, Talmudic novellae by R. Eliyahu Shapiro. [Fürth: Itzek son of Leib Buchbinder, 1768]. Lacking title page and leaves 9-10, 21-22, 41-42, 45-46, 53-54, 81-82, 89-90, 95-98, 101-103 (total of 22 leaves). On first leaf, early signature: "Alexander Ziskind son of R. Y. L. --- of Sanz[?]".

• Pardes David, novellae on the Torah by R. David Dishbek. Sulzbach: Aharon [Frankl] and his son Zekl [Orenstein], [1786]. Trimmed signature on title page.

• Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim with Kaf HaChaim, by R. Yaakov Chaim Sofer of Baghdad, Part V. Jerusalem: Y. A. Weiss, 1924. First edition. With stamp of the Rebbe from his tenure as Rabbi of Carei (1926-1934): "Yoel Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Carei and the region".

5 books. Varying size and condition. Stains. Wear. Tears and open tears affecting text, to some books. Leaves missing from some books (detailed above). Stamps. Original bindings from the Rebbe's library.

Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979), a leader of his generation, president of the Edah HaCharedit in Jerusalem and leader of American Orthodox Jewry, one of the founding pillars of Chassidic Jewry after the Holocaust. Born in Sighet, he was the son of Rebbe Chananiah Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov, and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehudah, the Yitav Lev, who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth for his sharpness and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. After his marriage to the daughter of Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Polaniec, he settled in Satmar and taught Torah and Chassidut to an elite group of disciples and followers. He served as rabbi of Irshava (1911-1915, 1922-1926), Karoly (Carei; from 1925), and Satmar (Satu Mare; from 1934), managing in each of these places a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. During the Holocaust, he was rescued through the famous Kastner Train, and after a journey through Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel, he reached the United States, where he established the largest Chassidic group in the world.