Lot 415
Collection of Letters – Rabbi Shlomo Burstein – China / Japan, 1940s
Thirty-eights letters and postcards sent to Rabbi Shlomo Burstein and letters sent by him to his wife, Shoshana, Kobe, Japan, 1941 / Shanghai, China 1946 / Montevideo, [second half of 1940s].
Rabbi Shlomo Burstein of Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai was one of the remaining disciples of Mir Yeshiva in Lithuania, a disciple of the famous "Mashgiach" Rabbi Yeruham; after WW II, for 15 years, was a teacher of religious studies in Uruguay and later made Aliya to Eretz Israel. The collection presented here includes postcards sent from the USSR addressed to Rabbi Burstein in Kobe, Japan, 1941; letters sent from Shanghai by Burstein to his wife, Shoshana in 1946 – with novellae and biblical discourse; various letters and forms. See item no 518 in this catalogue. Sizes and conditions vary.
