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Large handwritten leaves, copies by the scribe of the Dretske congregation in Hungary, related to appointment of rabbis of city.
Copies include: • Protocol of community decision to appoint Rabbi Shlomo Sofer as rabbi from Rosh Chodesh Adar I 1888. • Letter of response to the congregation written by Rabbi Shlomo Sofer regarding his appointment. • Letter by Rabbi Simcha Bunim Sofer [author of Shevet Sofer] blessing appointment of his brother as rabbi of city. • Decision of the congregation to inaugurate Rabbi Yosef Leib Sofer. Iyar 1885. • Rabbinate writ to his brother Rabbi Shmuel Binyamin Sofer. 1903. • Poem in honor of inauguration of Rabbi Shmuel Binyamin Sofer.
Ga’on Rabbi Shlomo Sofer, youngest son of the Ktav Sofer, who arrived to Dretske in light of his marriage to the daughter of the city rabbi, served in the rabbinate of the city between 1878 and 1884. He was then transferred to the rabbinate of Beregszasz. His successor was Ga’on Rabbi Yosef Leib Sofer, who was not related to him, and was the son of Gao’n Rabbi Eliezer Zussman Sofer Av Beit Din of Paks. He served in Dretske until the demise of his father in 1903, when he was summoned to succeed him in Paks, and his younger brother Rabbi Shmuel Binyamin Sofer took his place and served in Dretske until his demise during the Holocaust in 1943.
[4] leaves (7 written pages). 38 cm. Good condition. Stains.