The youngest son of the Sfas Emes, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Alter inherited the key spiritual traits of Ger Chassidus: the forthrightness of its forerunner Kotzk. Whether it was taking on the propaganda machine of secular Jewish newspapers or railing against the ostentatious shows of wealth by frum Jews, Rabbi Alter feared nobody. But his fiercest battle of all was against an unassailable enemy – Polish anti-Semitism.