Chaim Tzvi Schneerson

Family book of Rabbi from Ladi, ref #93

Great grandson of Shneir Zalman of Liadi

From: https://www.kedem-auctions.com/content/rabbi-haim-zvi-sneersohn-pal... He wrote Palestine and Roumania, A description of the Holy Land, and the Past and Present State of Roumania, and the Roumanian Jews, by rabbi Haim Zvi Sneersohn. New-York: Hebrew Orphan Asylum Printing Establishment, 1872. English. "Palestine and Roumania", by R' Haim Zvi Sneersohn (1834-1882), emissary, Chasid Chabad, of the old Yishuv in Eretz Israel and a messenger of Zionism. The composition consists of a compilation of essays and speeches delivered by Sneersohn to senior figures in the United States, concerning Eretz Israel (history of the country and present state of its inhabitants) and about Romanian Jewry. Sneersohn developed in this book his idea to establish a free independent Jewish state in Eretz Israel and called for improving the state of Romanian Jews. [1], XVI, 17-168 pp, 18 cm.

For additional information about Sneersohn see: "Rabbi Haim Zvi Sneersohn, of the predictors of the State of Israel" by Dr. Israel Klausner. Harav Kook Institute publishing, Jerusalem 1973.

Image from the facing the title page - portrait of the author in an oriental garment.

From: http://en.hebron.org.il/history/677

Full book text available: https://archive.org/details/palestineroumani00snee The Jerusalem Rabbi Who Met President Ulysses S. Grant http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/sneersohn.pdf Bio from Hebrew Wikipedia https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%91...

Also available online When General Grant Expelled the Jews: https://books.google.ca/books?id=QjLTCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq...