Manuscript, Toldot HaYachas HaKadosh, history and lineage of families of rabbis and Hassidic rebbes, according to early manuscripts. Copies of letters by the Rabbi of Opatów, Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel. With book of letters written by Rabbi Yisrael Ba'al Shem Tov and his disciples the Magid of Mezhirichi and others. [Europe, 1810s-1820s].
The book has early copies of letters from the Kherson Geniza which reached the holy court in Boyany. See attached material. On the last leaf are inscriptions in Russian of the dispatch of documents which had belonged to the Tzaddik Rebbe Yisrael [ben Rebbe] Shalom Freidman [i.e. Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzin from whom the collection of the Kherson geniza was allegedly taken], the documents were sent to the management of the Kherson region. More inscriptions in another language, dated February 1921. [The nature of these inscriptions remains unclear. Are they a copy of the original copied by the person who wrote this manuscript and can these inscriptions throw light on the Kherson Geniza affair?].
[1], 73 pp. 21.5 cm. Brittle paper, good-fair condition, much wear. Unbound.