Lot 389
Archive of Rabbis' Letters before the Holocaust
An archive of letters sent to Rabbi Yeshaya Shechter who served as a halachic authority in Gladbeck (Germany) and afterward immigrated to Tel Aviv. [Letters from 1917-1938].
Many letters from Jewish German rabbis and community institutes. the list of rabbis includes Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kirshbaum of Frankfurt am Main; Rabbi Moshe Nirenberg, Rabbi Avraham Leib Giberman and Rabbi Kalman Ze'ev Beck of Köln; Rabbi Ya'akov Horowitz of Düsseldorf; Rabbi David Feldman and Rabbi Avraham Yehuda Shmukler of Leipzig; Rabbi Yitzchak Meir of Magdeburg; etc. Letters from the office of "Agudat Rabbanim Rheinland - Westfalen, Duisburg; various institutes in Magdeburg; etc.
Letter from rabbis in other countries: Rabbi Shmuel Brom of Lucerne; Rabbi Yisrael Baruch Ganz of Amsterdam; Rabbi Mordechai Rottenberg of Antwerp; Yitzchak Meir Horchstein of Brussels; Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel of Antwerp; etc. Additional letters: a certificate from the Tel Aviv rabbinate signed by Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Chai Uziel and by Rabbi Amiel; a letter from the Lille (France) rabbinate, etc.
Paper items and other letters, including a stencil printing of "the holy sayings of the Rebbe…of Sadigura on Purim 1931 in the city of Wein", and official stationery of Rabbi Shechter.
Approximately 50 items, varied size and condition.
