Bibliography

• Modern
• Pre-1800 

Modern

• Gliksman, Pinhas Zelig. Ir Lask va-hakhamehah (Lask and its Wise Men). Jerusalem, 1967. Call No. BM 750 G5 1967.

The author was a prominent historian in Poland before the Holocaust. This book was originally published in 1926 and is of great value to genealogists. It presents detailed biographies and familial information about prominent personalities and families who lived in the town of Lask. (summary by Chaim Friedman, email fridman@ultinet.co.il)

• Vishniac, Roman, A Vanished World. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983.  ISBN: 0374282471.

Photos of pre-war Europe, including the town of Lask and Lask rabbi. From 1934 to 1939, Vishniac explored on foot the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, recording life in the Jewish shtetlekh (villages) of Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia and Lithuania. Using a hidden camera and working under difficult circumstances that included evading the police and later Nazis, he was able to take thousands of photographs. Two thousand of the images still survive. Two hundred of them appear in A Vanished World, which was published in 1983.

• Zurnamel, Z., ed. Lask: sefer zikaron (Memorial Book of Lask). Tel Aviv: Former  Residents of Lask in Israel, 1968. Call No. DS135.P62 L3. (901 pp., Hebrew, Yiddish, English).
• Zurnamel, Z., ed. Zikhron netsah la-kehilah ha-kedoshah Lask. Petah Tikva, Israel: Kfar Ganim School, 1942. Call No. DS135.P62 L38. (93 pp., Hebrew; Map).

Pre-1800

• Abraham ben Jehiel Michal, ha-Kohen, of Lask, d. ca. 1800. 
  • Sefer ve-hishav lo ha-Kohen / asher izen ve-tiken ve-hiber ve-hishev. Fyorda : Be-vet ubi-defus Itsik ben David Ts[irn]d[orf], 544 [1783 or 1784] (pre-1800 work about Cabala). Call No. BM525 .A727 1783. 
  • Shem ha-sefer `Ayin panim ba-Torah : ba-`avur she-bo nir'eh peri tenuvah, tevunat ha-mehaber she-metarets kushy. ha-Zohar ha-kadosh `al hathalat ha-Torah. (pre-1800 work about the Bible and Cabala). Call No. BS1235 .A238 1865. 
  • Sefer Zehav parvayim. Bet Ya`akov. Second work by Abraham ben Jehiel Michal ha-Kohen mi-Lask. First work originally published: Pyetrkov : T.F. Belkhatovski, 1880. 2nd work originally published: Sefer Bet Ya`akov. Livorno : Y.N. Vais, 552 [1791 or 1792]. (pre-1800 work about Cabala) BM525 .Z44 1994.
• Avraham Eli`ezer Lezer ben Yosef, mi-k.k. Lask, 1772-1847.
  •  Sefer Yekara de-haye : `a´sarah derushim / she-hibarti Avraham Eli`ezer Lezer mi-Krako. Originally published: Ofenbakh : A. ben H. Segal, 583 [1822 or 1823]. (Jewish sermons, in Hebrew) Call No. BM740 .A945 1991.
  • Sefer Avne kodesh. Varsha : Drukarni Hebreyski, 579 [1818 or 1819]. (Jewish law) Call No. BM520.3 .A887 1818 Hebr.
• Pinhas Zelig ben Mosheh, ha-a.b.d. ve-r.m. bi-k.k. Lask. `Ateret paz : `al ha-Rosh. Originally published: Frankfurt de-Oder: Almanat Grila, 528 [1767 or 1768]. (Commentary on the Talmud) Call No. BM506.N23 A847 1990.

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