Auction 57

Lot 166:

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“The performances are dangerous to the modest education of girls”—strongly worded letter of protest about the carrying out of performances in front of women, signed by geonim of Badatz: Rabbi Pinchas Epstein, Rabbi Yisrael Yitzhak Reisman, and Rabbi David

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“One of them dressed in jest in women’s clothes, like amongst the secular”—a protest letter signed by rabbis of the Bagatz, 1960.

Protests a phenomenon that prevailed in those years, of organizing performance evenings for the benefit of fundraising for various institutions, “particularly what took place Motzash of Parshat Beshalch, bachurim acted in jest and nonsense, one of them wore women’s clothes in front of women and girls”.

Signed by:
Ra’avad Rabbi Pinchas Epstein (author of Urian Tlita’I and other works)
Rabbi Yisrael Yitzhak Reisman (Ra’avad of Badatz Chassidim)
Rabbi David HaLevi Jungreis (Ram at the Ohel Moshe yeshiva and later Ra’avad of the Eida).

20.5x28cm.
Small tear to the upper edge, creases, stains, filing holes, good condition.

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