Auction 16
Lot 139:
1. Yediyot Achronot newspaper article on the public storm among the Neturei Karta and the Haredi world when Rabbi Amram Blau intended to marry a convert, Ruth ben David. 2. His reasoned response on 17 printed pages using a typewriter, which he distributed into limited circulation. His intention to marry the convert Ruth ben David (her previous name was Madeleine Pirée) awoke a public controversy in 1963 among the Neturei Karta and the Haredi world, since she was born a Catholic and was significantly younger than him. His students and children saw this as beneath his honor. Rabbis of the Haredi world opposed the marriage on the grounds that it was beneath a person of his stature and it was forbidden for a rabbi of his level to marry a convert, so they boycotted him. Rabbi Amram Blau was forced to move temporarily to Bnei Brak, where the marriage was consecrated. Different sizes, generally very good condition.
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