Picture of the Admor from Belz. [1930's?]. Place of printing is not mentioned.
Rabbi Aharon Rokeach of Belz (1878-1957, Otzar Ha-Rabbanim 1730). Became Admor in 1927. Survived the holocaust but lost his family, and came to Eretz Israel with his brother, Rabbi of Bilgoraj, where they re-established the Hassidic court of Belz.
Printed photo. 17.3 cm, good condition, creased damaged.

1. The form of Rabbi Shmuel David Ungar Rabbi of Trnava. [Afer 1918].
Rabbi Shmuel David Ungar (1886-1945), Otzar HaRabbanim 19492) Rabbi of Trnava and Nitra and Chief Rabbi of Slovakia. A ga'on and tzaddik, he taught Torah to thousands of disciples for 40 years. During the holocaust, Nitra Yeshiva was the last one to close its doors in conquered Europe. After the yeshiva was abandoned, he escaped to the forests and hills, where he perished in 1945. He was the father in law of the Sanz-Kloisenberg Admor, and of Rabbi Weissmendel, active in the rescue of Jews during the holocaust and founder of the Nitra Yeshiva in the US.
2. A photograph of a Rabbi [Polish or Lithuanian ?], pasted on cardboard. The photographer: Zilberstein, Gora Kalwaria), Poland, year not recorded.
Varied size. Stains and folding marks.

Three postcards with photos of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Poland:
1. Group photograph – "The Holy Mirrer Yeshiva, 1817-1933". Pictures of the Yeshiva faculty and students, married and single, plus a picture of the Yeshiva building. Mir, 1933. In the upper section, pictures of the heads of the Yeshiva: "Rabbi Avraham Zvi Kamai, Rabbi and Yeshiva head, Rabbi Yerucham HaLevi Levovitz, Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Finkel, Rabbi and administrator". [Ink stamp of photographer on back of picture].
2. "New Year's Greeting", with miniature group photo – "The holy Mirrer Yeshiva 1817-1926". Mir, [1926].
3. General view of the hamlet, with handwritten caption "View of the town from afar". [Mir 1933].
Varying sizes and condition.

Six photographs of rabbis, four of The Ponevezh Rabbi at a public appearance and speech. [c. 1960].
Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman was born in 1886 in Kuhl, Lithuania. He studied at Telshe (Telz) Yeshiva and under the Chafetz Chaim in Radin. He served as Rabbi of Vidzh and Ponevezh. One of the founders of Agudat Israel and Va'ad Ha-Yeshivot. Member of Mo'etzet Gedolei HaTorah from 1923. Trusted confidant of the Chafetz Chaim and Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky. In the middle of the Holocaust years, when he lost most of his family and disciples, he re-established the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. He died in 1969. Renowned for his rhetoric ability and his cleverness.
Six photographs, 14X18 cm. Good condition.

Photograph album, “The festive opening of the Kol Ya’akov Yeshiva in the Muscovite great synagogue, on Sunday, 4th of Shvat, 1957”.
The photographs depict Rabbi Shlomo Shleifer, rabbi of Moscow, who passed away two months later, and Rabbi Yehudah Leib Levine who took over his position as rabbi of Moscow for many years.
The great Muscovite synagogue was open during the communist era under the undercover eyes of the KGB secret agents. Few Jews were granted permission to pray there, especially elders, and this too only as a lip service which the Soviet rule paid to the world. The Kol Ya’akov Yeshiva which opened in the synagogue was also part of this trend. The Yeshiva included ten young men, most of which were natives of Caucasus.
14 photographs. 19X13. A sheet of paper [worn] with caption in Hebrew and Russian is glued on the binding of the album.