Report card given to a student of the yeshiva of R. David Grünwald of Satmar, author of Keren LeDavid, stamped and signed by the Gabbaim of the yeshiva. Satmar, [11 Iyar], summer 1928.
Report card of the student David Ze'ev Neuman of Șomcuta Mare, who studied in the class of R. Tzvi Kalman in the Keren LeDavid Satmar yeshiva: "Chevrah Bachurim of the yeshiva of the Rebbe Av Beit Din of Satmar". His schedule – basic lecture, Chumash and Rashi, Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah, in-depth lecture.
The report card was issued for summer 1928, months Iyar-Av. Each page is divided into two weeks and arranged into nine spaces (to be filled and signed) for Monday-Thursday and the lectures in Chumash-Rashi, basic lecture, Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim and Yoreh Deah. Some of the spaces are stamped by the Gabbaim of the yeshiva: "passed the test" or "passed the test and satisfied our rabbi".
Afterwards appears an empty page to be filled with the test grades: "lecture tests", "passed the test on the subject", "the great test", "passed the test on Tractate – from folio – to folio –".
On the margins of the pages appears the signature or stamp of the Gabbai of the yeshiva, "Baruch Tzvi Katz Moszkowicz" [on the margins of the title page is a list of other Gabbais of the yeshiva: "Efraim Fishel Moszkowicz, Shmuel David Abrahamowicz, Shmuel David Rappoport and Chaim Weinstock].
On the margins of the first page appears the yeshiva's official stamp: "Stamp of the Av Beit Din and yeshiva dean of Satmar" (inside which is an identical inscription in Romanian and an illustration of an open book); on the margins of the following pages are stamps: "Chevrah Bachurim of the high yeshiva of Satmar".
The Gabbai of the yeshiva whose signature is on the present document – R. Baruch Tzvi HaKohen Moszkowicz (1907-1990), born in Makó. Studied seven years in the yeshiva of the Keren LeDavid in Satmar, where he advanced beyond his peers and was chosen as Gabbai of the Chevrah Charifut. He traveled to the Ahavat Yisrael in Vizhnitz, to the Minchat Elazar in Munkacs and to Rebbe Aharon of Belz, but he was closest with his own rebbe, Rebbe Yoel of Satmar. After the Holocaust, in 1947 he was appointed Av Beit Din of the Orthodox community in Páks, where he established an important yeshiva. Ten years later, in 1957 he was appointed Rosh Av Beit Din of Budapest, and in 1959 he moved to Vienna. During that period he authored and published his important books Tenuvot Baruch, Mishmeret Tzvi and more. In 1981 he moved to the United States and established his Beit Midrash in Brooklyn, "Beit David of Páks". He was known as great in Torah, Chassidut and fear of God. He was a loyal childhood friend of both the Vayechi Yosef of Pápa and the Berach Moshe of Satmar.
[7] leaves. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Inscriptions on the back cover. Stamps in Romanian (apparently of the owner of the report card, the student David Ze'ev Neuman).
