Especially rare letter with important historic details: Letter handwritten and signed in full by the Admor Rabbi Nissan Yehuda Leib Twersky of Kielce, son of the Admor Rabbi David of Makarov. 1907

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Letter written on both sides of a leaf—on one side in Yiddish in an unknown handwriting with a request for support. On the back is an exciting discovery—a letter handwritten and signed fully by the Admor Rabbi Nissan Yehuda Leib of Kielce, who writes: “Covered am I with my loved ones and relatives…which Hashem has done after all the narrow passages in which I found myself…an orphan I was left after my parents’ deaths and now I have arrived at marriage to Esther Gittel bat Rabbi Chaim Kanor[?] of Kielce to this I give … 9th Tammuz 1907.” He ends with his full handwritten signature.

Unfortunately the document was not completely preserved so we don’t know to whom it was sent, and especially given the remnants which have survived (including Moharar). However, given its rarity and importance it is nevertheless valuable, especially for the details given regarding the marriage which as far as we can tell were not published in the tzaddik’s biography. Tears, tape, and defects to the text (see pictures).

The Admor Rabbi Nissan Yehuda Leib Twersky hy”d (1883-6th Iyar 1940) was the son of the Admor Rabbi David of Makarov (descended from the Chernobyl dynasty). He served as rabbi of Pokschowintz; during WWI he was exiled by the Russians and then served as rabbi of Kiev. In 1921 he moved to Poland and settled in Kielce, where he served as Admor in place of his uncle Rabbi Mordechai of Kozmir. In Sivan 1940 he died in Krakow under the Nazis.

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