Zikaron L’Bnei Yisrael (Chassidic edition)—copy of the Admor of Skernievitz and the Bnei Brak Rabbi, Rabbi Yosef ...

Zikaron L’Bnei Yisrael (Chassidic edition)—copy of the Admor of Skernievitz and the Bnei Brak Rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Zvi Kalish.
Book by Rabbi Yaakov Chagiz with the commentary Be’er Moshe—Warsaw 1909. Endorsement of the Admor Rabbi Meir Yehiel HaLevi of Ostrovtza. Top of the cover has the signature of “Yosef ben HaRav Kadosh Shlita of Skernievitz” (his father is mentioned in the book in the list of pre-orderers). At the end of the introduction is his stamp from the same period. Rarity: his signature, before his Aliyah to Israel, is extremely rare. Almost never seen in auctions. Rabbi Yosef Zvi Kalish (1885-1957), the Admor of Skernievitz, was the great-grandson of Rabbi Yitzhak of Worka. In the 1920s he replaced the Admor Rabbi Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub in the Kortchov Rabbinate. After his father’s death in 1927 he inherited his title of Admor of Skernievitz. He answered the invitation of the founder of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Yitzhak Gershtenkoren, who was a Skernievitz chassid, and immigrated in 1935 and was appointed the town’s rabbi, in which role he worked until his death while still being the Admor of Skernievitz. He was close with the Chazon Ish, who supported him in his role as rabbi of Bnei Brak. Every year he would travel to Poland to visit his followers. At the start of World War II he was in Warsaw and managed to escape on the last train from the capital to the Romanian port city of Constanza, returning to Israel. He would host other chassidim every seudah shlishit of Shabbat. “Here was seen the nice mixture of Admors and rabbinate together as one. In the ultra-Orthodox Bnei Brak, there was a special grace and beauty in the fact that a Hasidic Rebbe served as the city’s rabbi, as in the past in Poland and Russia. In addition to his aristocratic style, his figure was also remarkably beautiful, his white beard descending over him, his tall, upright height, and his serene and radiant appearance,” described one of his followers. His divrei torah were collected in the book She’erit Yosef, printed in 2000 by Rav Zeev David Reichman. 46 [1] pages. Good condition. Bit of moth holes on a few pages.