Auction 70
Lot 358:
Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Acraham Zalman Kurtz Av Beit Din of Rochester addressed to his Gaon Rav Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, the Rosh Yeshiva of Hebron – Rochester (New York), 1932 .
The content of the letter: the transfer of donations by philanthropists from Rochester, where Rabbi Kurtz was a Gabai of the Hebron Yeshiva. In general, its eems that the Hebron Yeshiva enjoyed a wide array of Lithuanian and Russian rabbi who raised funds for the yeshiva.
Stationery with an offical logo.
21.5X26.5 cm.
Filing holes. Good condition.
The Gaon Rabbi Avraham Zalman Kurtz (passed away in 1949) stduied in Radin with the Chafetz Chaim and after his marriage, studied in a Kollel in Kovna. Received his Hora’ah Semicha from Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, the addressee of this letter. In 1924, Rabbeinu immigrated to the USA, where he served at first as Av Beit Din of Erie, Pennsylvania and later as Av Beit Din of Rochester.
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