Gift of Moses Zupnik

Id no. 26.98, Book, Hebrew, Aramaic

1944, China, Shanghai

Subject(s):  Refugees, Education-religious, Emigration

The Mir Yeshiva left Soviet-occupied Poland for Lithuania in 1939 and then Japan in 1940. In 1941 the Japanese sent them to Shanghai, where they remained throughout the war. This Mishneh Torah was printed in Shanghai for the Yeshiva.