Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piasetzno, before 1943
Arousing the Truth with Malachi and the Piacezner Rebbe
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Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (ed. Jacques Ellain Miller; trans. Alan Sheridan; The Seminar of Jacques Lacan book XI; New York: Norton and Company, 1978), vii [in the preface to the English language edition].
See the commentaries of Radak, Ibn Ezra, and Rashi.
When the ghetto was on the verge of being destroyed, R. Shapira buried the book in a canister, which was was found by a construction worker after the war. The book was published in 1960 in Israel. R. Shapiro himself was shot by Nazis in the Trawniki work camp during Operation Harvest Festival.