Lot 500
Wedding Invitation – Signature of Rebbe Chaim Meir Yechiel Shapira – Vienna
Invitation to the wedding of Yitzchak son of Rabbi Chaim Shapira, to Rivka, daughter of Rabbi Yosef Pantzer. Vienna, [1918?].
On the upper part of the invitation a stamp of the rabbi and on the bottom a hand signature, Rabbi "Chaim Meir Yechiel son of R' Aviezri---Shapira", Rabbi in Drohovitz and Vienna.
Rabbi Chaim Meir Yechiel Shapira, born in 1863 in Sadigora and was named after his ancestor the holy Gaon from Mogelnitza, descendant of the Maggid from Koznitz and Rabbi Elimelech from Lizensk. His mother is daughter of Rabbi Avraham Ya'akov from Sadigora. Rebbe in Drohovitz, after First World War. He moved to Vienna where he established the association "Yeshuv Eretz Yisrael" and immigrated with his family to Eretz Yisrael in 1921, died in 1923. (Encyclopedia of Chasidut A, page 137-140).
21 cm. Good condition. Stains, creaces. Uneven cutting.
