Auction 48
Lot 135:
Long letter from the Merkaz Agudas Yisrael in Zurich, send by Rabbi Dr. Natan Birnbaum (a leader of Agudas Yisrael) to Rabbi Yitzhak Yerucham Diskin (a Jerusalem rabbi in the Eida Charedit), regarding their joining the Israeli Charedim to the Agudas Yisrael. The letter was sent at the end of World War I.
The letter levies implicit criticism on the Israeli Charedim for not rushing to join the Agudas Yisrael movement.
The letter is signed by Rabbi Birnbaum, who was the Secretary of the World Agudas Yisrael, and Rabbi Yaakov Yoel Braun, a leader of Agudas Yisrael in Pressburg and Zurich.
2 pages written on both sides, 22x28cm, creases, cutting on the edges, good condition.
Rabbi Dr. Natan Birnbaum (1864-1937) was a rabbi, doctor, author, and thinker, who started as a member of the Zionist movement and was among its heads (he was considered 2nd to Dr. Herzl), while many saw him as the spiritual leader of the movement. But later in life he became a baal tshuva and became a leader of Agudas Yisrael. He is famous for a speech in Grosvardin in which at the height of the speech he beat his chest while saying Viduy—he was one of the greatest baalei tshuva and an important leader of Agudas Yisrael before the Shoah.
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