Auction 51 Part I - Books Chassidism Manuscripts Rabbinical Letters

Archive of Letters, Manuscripts and Documents - Rabbi Koppel Kahana, Rabbi in Lithuania and in London

Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $3,000
Including buyer's premium
Large collection of documents from the archive of Rabbi Koppel Kahana of London. Letters and documents, Hebrew and English Torah novellae. Most of the letters are from heads of yeshivas, rabbis and Torah figures in Lithuania-Poland, c. 1930s.
The archive contains letters from: Rabbi Simcha Zelig Riger, rabbi in Brisk. [1934]; Rabbi Aharon Kotler. Klyetsk, [1934]; Rabbi Shlomo David Kahana. Warsaw, [1934]; Rabbi Baruch Yosef Feivelson, head of the Radin Yeshiva. [1929]; etc.
For for further details, see Hebrew description.
Rabbi Koppel Kahana (1895-1978), son of Rabbi Shlomo David Kahana, rabbi in Warsaw. Disciple of the Chafetz Chaim's yeshiva in Radin. From 1929, he served as Av Beit Din of Puszcza Białowieska and of Rozanai in Polish Lithuania. During the Holocaust, he reached England and became a prominent rabbi in London. He authored Birkat Cohen, Nachalat Cohen, The Case for Jewish Civil Law in The State Of Israel, etc.
More than 50 items, including 26 letters. Size and condition vary, good to fair-poor.
Letters
Letters