Lot 369
Letter of Recommendation by Rabbi Avraham Duber Kahane Shapira, Author of Dvar Avraham – Assistance to a Victim of the Nazi Regime in Danzig, 1937
Letter of recommendation handwritten and signed by Rabbi Avraham Duber Kahane Shapira, Av Beit Din of Kovno. Kovno, December 1937. Sent to Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman, who served at that time as Av Beit Din of Liverpool (England), with a request to recommend a Jew from Danzig, "a wealthy grain trader, a very honest upright person, trustworthy and respected in his community", who due to the persecution of Jews in Danzig [by the Nazi Party], escaped to Liverpool and needs assistance in attaining residential rights. Rabbi Avraham Duber Kahane Shapira (1871-1943), author of Dvar Avraham, a famous rabbi in his time and a prominent leader of Jewry an of Agudat Rabbanim in Lithuania, see item 281. Official stationery, 29.5 cm. 12 written lines. Good-fair condition, light wear to paper folds and margins.
