Auction 16
Lot 277:
Written on a typewriter. From 1945m signed by hand and stamped. In the margins is the words “I received it” handwritten and signed by Rabbi Meir Karlitz. Letter written in cold language, and is somewhat threatening. On 16 dunams of land that were not paid for. Rav Yosef Shlomo Kahanman (1888-1969) was head of the Ponevezh yeshiva in Lithuania before the Shoah and founded the yeshiva in Israel afterwards. Its first head and member of the Council of Torah Sages. In addition also founded Mossad Batei Avot for children who survived, and founded Kiryat Ponevezh in Ashdod and Yeshivat Grodna. There are streets named after him in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem. | Rav Meir Karlitz (1875-1955), rabbi of Lakovitch, was a close associate of the Chafetz Haim and Rav Haim Ozer Grodzinsky, and helped them establish the Polish Yeshivot Committee and was a head of the committee in Poland and Israel. Founder of the independent study movement and a member of the Council of Torah Sages. After his death the Yeshivat Beit Meir was founded in his name in Bnei Brak, by his son-in-law, Rav Zalman Rotberg. Filing holes, signs of folding, generally very good condition.
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