A Prince in Prison

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

In this unparalleled historic first-person description the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe graphically documents the cold truth behind the cynical Stalinist facade of religious tolerance — midnight arrest, intimidation and interrogation, incarceration without trial, the humiliation of prison routine, the torture of dissidents, and so on.

From the diary of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch

From the Sichos in English Collection

Publisher’s Foreword

Publisher’s Foreword by the Rebbe

A Letter of the Rebbe Rayatz On His Seven Terms of Imprisonment

The Imprisonment of 1927 - Part I

The Imprisonment of 1927 - Part II

The Imprisonment of 1927 - Part III (1-15)

The Imprisonment of 1927 - Part III (16-26)

Part IV: [Recollections of the Author’s Childhood Between the Ages of Six and Eleven] (1-15)

Part IV: [Recollections of the Author’s Childhood Between the Ages of Six and Eleven] (16-25)

Appendix: Prisons are Transient

The Farewell Message of the Rebbe Rayatz, 1927

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From the diary of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch

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 Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe graphically documents the cold truth behind the cynical Stalinist facade of religious tolerance — midnight arrest, intimidation and interrogation, incarceration without trial, the humiliation of prison routine, the torture of dissidents, and so on.

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