A Prince in Prison

The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927.

It was the author, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch, who spearheaded the underground Jewish resistance to Stalin’s ideological Final Solution — and paid for it by brutal incarceration and a capital sentence from which he was miraculously liberated.

In this unparalleled historic first-person description (the Hebrew original of which is entitled Reshimas HaMaasar) the Previous Lubavitcher Reb...