Kitzur Toldos Chabad

Author: Yosef Yitzchok Kaminetsky Publisher: HaMaayan HaChassidi 7x9.625 hardcover 360 pages Tour the timeline of Chabad history. Rabbi Kaminetzky, author of the popular Yemei Chabad, begins with the birth of the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, and focuses on the life and times of the Rebbes and Chasidim who shaped Chabad-Lubavitch throughout the generations. Sources are provided for every element of the narrative. With snapshots of historic Lubavitch sites, facsimiles of the Rebbes` handwritten notes and maps of key journeys, reading Kitzur Toldot Chabad is a lively "eyewitness" experience. This first vol. concludes shortly before Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson`s "official" acceptance of leadership as the seventh Rebbe of the Lubavitch dynasty in the year 5711/1951. HEBREW