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>>Heilige Chevra,

>>   Can anyone give me information on the Holy Beggar's Gazette, how it got

>>started, how long was it around for, etc... Is there any way of obtaining

>>copies of what was printed?

>>

>>Elliot

>>

>stephen and donna anderson mames and elana rappaport (schachter)

>edited and published the HBG out of the HLP in SF. 1972-74.

>about a half dozen or so issues were produced.

>it was distributed free/at cost. all the shlomo torah

>is included in the webpage "our rebbe's most humble abode"

>http://www.shamash.org/judaica/rebshlomo/

>

>recently kalman serkez re-edited and re-published

>the whole collection in a book named "The Holy Beggars' Banquet".



Dear Dovid, Elliot, Chevre,



        Dovid is correct about the year publication started.  There were

three typed and double-sided, photo-copied and folded in the middle issues

that first year, one featuring teachings and stories about Purim, one about

Iyar, and one about Shavuot, and another two with card stock covers and

typeset text (though that advance may not have been introduced until the

following year):  a Holiday issue (September) and a Teach-in issue

(December).  It looks like only two came out in 1973 (Pesach, Weddings) and

two in '74 (Abraham--in January--and Women--in April).  Then there were

three more issues, one in each of the following three years:  a special

double issue dated Winter-Spring 1975; Spring-Summer 1976; and the final

one, dated 1977/5737.  That makes an even dozen.



        Steve Maimes gave me a box of remaindered copies before he left for

the east coast, and I sold them along with AGADA till they virtually ran

out.  After a search, I have found only four extras of the Pesach issue,

three extras of the double, and one extra of the final, not that they're

for sale.  I also have quite a few copies of Vol. 1, No. 1 that I'd be

happy to send to anyone upon request (and they're rather easy to reproduce

should more be needed).  I'd be curious to know what Kalman Serkez did with

all this material in his book.  Steve also published The Fixer, based on a

story by Reb Nachman, translated and illustrated by Miriam and Eliyah

Succot (Oakland, California:  Tzaddikim Press, 1977).  Those with long

institutional memories will recall that Eliyah (Alex) and Miriam were

inspirational figures in the early House of Love and Prayer.



        By the way, only Steven L. Maimes and Elana Rappaport are listed as

co-editors of the HBG.  Donna must have also been involved, but she is not

given credit on the masthead except as an illustrator.



        With all good wishes,



        Reuven



