Emerich Grinbaum - January 8, 2001

And what happened to the Rebbe?

Which one?

The Munkacse Rebbe.

Well, the Munkacs Rebbe, he died. Shapira died in the thirties.And the other rebbes I don't know.

But didn't he have a successor?

He was another successor, his, his son-in-law.

Yeah.

But I don't know what happened. I don't know.

I think he went to Israel.

I don't know. Something. I, I really don't know the story. Idon't know the story.

I mean, it's ironic that he went to Israel.

Yeah, I don't know the story. Uh, I know the Belze Rabbi, Rabbiwas salvaged through the Hungarian underground. You remember, you read itand they salvaged with the Kasztner group.

Kasztner's group.

You know, that's a different story.

You know what happened to Kasztner.

They killed-oh I have an excellent book you know, probably youread-if you want I can give you-about Kasztner. That was-he-that was a, likea fiction, but about Kas...you know, the whole, whole id...idea. In English.Uh, if you want, I can find for you and I can give.

What's the title of the book?

The title of the book, He Thought That He's a God. Interestingbook, about Kasztner. A different name, but that's the one. He wanted to write.I'll find for you and I, I bring, I bring to...

Bring it, okay.

Amazing, amazing. Am...very interesting book. I, I had this bookuh, uh. You know, I found this book-you want...

Sure let's put it...

in, in the library when they liquidated the library in the uh,in, in, in the Hebrew, Hebrew...

In United Hebrew School.

Midrash-United Hebrew Midrash College. They, they uh, there wasa lot of books, so and I found interesting books. All books, you know. AndI've read...

Yeah, me too.

And that was a very interesting book. So I, I'm going to bringyou.


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