Gemara Zhitomir - Copy of the Mekor Baruch from Sarat Vizhnitz - Signature and glosses in his handwriting.

Gemara Zhitomir - Copy of the Mekor Baruch from Sarat Vizhnitz - Signature and glosses in his handwriting.

Gemara Bekhorot Arakhin Temurah Keritot Meilah. Zhitomir 1860. Printing of the Shapira brothers, grandsons of Rabbi of Slavita .

Tractate Keretot [page 7] and Tractate Me'ilah [11b] 2 short notes in his handwriting. 

First title page, for each tractate of a separate chapter, as well as the laws of the firstborn of Ramban with the commentary of Maharit Algazi.

The Admor Rabbi Baruch Hager [1895-1963], the 'Mekor Baruch,' son of Rabbi Yisrael, author of the Ahavat Yisrael, the first Admor of the Seret-Vizhnitz chassidut. Rabbinically ordained by Rabbi Meir Arik in 1923, appointed rabbi in Maramures and in Kitzman in 1928. Beginning in 1936, he served as rabbi in Seret and served as the last rabbi in Bukevina, right before its Jewish residents were expelled to the Ukraine during the Holocaust. After the Holocaust, he moved to Palestine in 1947 and established a neighborhood for his Chassidut in Haifa. Member of Agudat Yisrael's Council of Torah Sages.

Good condition, time stains, tiny moth holes on margins, original binding in fair condition.