Lot 457
Letter by Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky – With a List of the Yeshiva Students in 1940
A letter from the "Beit Yosef Zvi Yeshiva – of Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky Ga'avad of Jerusalem and Chief Rabbi of Charedi Jewry in Eretz Israel" to Rabbi Eliezer Silver. A letter of thanks for a contribution transferred by the “Va'ad HaHatzala” through the "Union of Students of Yeshivot of Old Ungarin", with a list of 96 yeshiva students, most refugees from Ashkenazi countries and Hungary. Jerusalem, Cheshvan 1940.
On the margins of the first leaf: letter with 7 lines handwritten and signed by the Head of the yeshiva Rabbi "Yosef Zvi Dushinsky".
Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky (1868-1948), a leading Hungarian Torah genius and a famous Torah scholar in his times. Served in the rabbinate of Khust and Galanta, where he headed some of the largest and most prominent of the yeshivot of Hungarian countries. In 1933, he immigrated to Eretz Israel to succeed Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld as Chief Rabbi of the Eidah HaCharedit in Jerusalem and Eretz Israel. In Jerusalem, he re-established his yeshiva and gave regular shiurim. He led the Charedi Jewry in Eretz Israel with authority, (participated in the discussions of the Peel Commission etc.). Died at the end of the 1948 war and is buried in the small cemetery in the courtyard of the “Sha'arei Tzedek” Hospital on Yaffo Street.
Two leaves, 28 cm. Thin paper, good-fair condition, stains.
