{"product_id":"early-years","title":"Early Years","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Formative Years of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe product of an exhaustive, years-long, worldwide research project, \u003cem\u003eEarly Years\u003c\/em\u003e tells the riveting story of the early life of the man who, as much as anyone else, set the course of Jewish history in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eWhat was his childhood like? What type of schooling did he receive? Who were his mentors and teachers? When did he first meet his father-in-law and predecessor, and what was the relationship between them like? At what point did the ideas that were to transform the landscape of post-Holocaust Jewry begin to take form in his mind?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThese questions and others about the Rebbe’s early life have never been answered comprehensively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"\u003ePresenting newly-uncovered government documents, private journals, letters, and diaries, Rabbis Boruch Oberlander and Elkanah Shmotkin have produced a highly engaging account, offering an unimpeded view of the formative years of modern Judaism’s most recognized personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eOver 450 documents and photographs are beautifully reproduced in full color, illuminating and informing the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eMeticulously researched and engagingly presented, \u003cem\u003eEarly Years\u003c\/em\u003e tells the fascinating story of the Rebbe’s early life, including newly uncovered details of:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none;\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none;\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rebbe’s first meeting with his future father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the match between the Rebbe and Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak’s middle daughter, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, came about.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe identity of the Rebbe’s childhood teacher who lived in his home and whom he described as “a great Torah scholar.”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe details of the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin’s wedding in Warsaw, and the simultaneous celebrations across the globe marking the event.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rebbe’s life in Berlin, where he lived with Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, hundreds of miles from his father-in-law and the seat of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Kehot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45393048469700,"sku":null,"price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/2886\/6244\/files\/FAF0DAEB-41B8-4EB1-AC31-2C67C743096A.webp?v=1763412626","url":"https:\/\/kingston-judaica.myshopify.com\/products\/early-years","provider":"Kingston Judaica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}