En Yaakov
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From footprints
- rdf:type
- Footprint
- Actor
- J. Biegeleisen (Seller)
- Date
- 1929-10-10
- Copy
- 2659-9463-12526
- Evidence type
- Reference in another text
- Evidence description
- Accession book 87431
- Notes
Jewish bookstore J. Biegeleisen Co. was founded by Yisrael Yakir Biegeleisen, a native of Auschwitz, Galicia who settled in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn in 1921. He began selling Hebraica in 1924. A master of Jewish bibliography, he helped build many private and public He…
Jewish bookstore J. Biegeleisen Co. was founded by Yisrael Yakir Biegeleisen, a native of Auschwitz, Galicia who settled in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn in 1921. He began selling Hebraica in 1924. A master of Jewish bibliography, he helped build many private and public Hebraica and Judaica collections, including the sifrei kodesh library of Mesivta Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn. In 1951, Biegeleisen— together with his son Solomon—moved the business from Brooklyn to New York's Lower bast Side. Starting on east Broadway, the store eventually made its way to Division Street. Always well stocked, its main floor contained one of the fullest collections of rabbinic literature in print. An upper floor consisted of bookcases and shelves stocked almost entirely with used Hebraica. J. Biegeleisen Co. thrived for some 30 years on New York's Lower East Side when in 1981, shortly after Yisrael Yakir's death, Solomon and his brother Moshe transferred the business to its original setting—the Boro Park section of Brooklyn. TRADITION, 25(1), Fall 1989- Percent complete
- 81
- Place
- New York, New York, United States
- Evidence location
- Jewish Theological Seminary
- Seller
- J. Biegeleisen
- Title
- En Yaakov
- Verified
- false
- described at
- https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/footprint/29567/
- dcterms:date
- October 10, 1929
- rdfs:label
- En Yaakov