Auction 19
Lot 187:
1. A letter in the handwriting and with the signature and on an official letterhead of Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin. Dated: 2nd Nissan 1948. The letter is addressed to the ‘She’arim’ newspaper and lists two conditions under which he permits them to publish excerpts from his book. | Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin [1885-1978], one of the foremost scholars of the past generation and editor of the Talmudic Encyclopedia. Ordained to the rabbinate by the Rogatchover and Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein. A Chabad chassid and one of the first to sign the letter of connection with the Rebbe. He was the first chairman of a beit din of Chabad rabbis in the Land of Israel. 2. A typewritten letter with the handwritten signature and on an official letterhead of Rabbi Baruch Kunstadt Rosh Yeshiva of the Kol Torah Yeshiva. Dated: July 6, 1966. The letter is addressed to his son-in-law, the deputy minister of education Rabbi Kalman Cahana, and contains a request for a budget of 130,000 Israeli lira to purchase a plot for the yeshiva despite the opposition of the Ministry of Religious Affairs. | Rabbi Baruch Kunstadt [1885-1967], rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem. A disciple of the ShevetSofer in Pressburg, who ordained him to the rabbinate. At the age of 22, as an unmarried yeshiva student, he was appointed as Rabbi and dayan of the Fulda community. In the Buchenwald concentration camp he vowed that if he survives he will immigrate to the Land of Israel and establish a yeshiva there, and indeed when he immigrated to the Land of Israel he established the Kol Torah yeshiva. This yeshiva was the first in Israel in which the Jewish studies were studied in Hebrew [not Yiddish]. Sizes and conditions vary. Overall condition: Fair – Good.
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