Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, to Rabbi Eliezer Silver, NY, [1939].
Regarding the delivery of money from the General Collection for Yeshivot, for the Baranovich kollel. He also mentions the delivery of money by Rabbi Chaim Ozer. At the end of the letter, he writes of his plans to return to Europe before Pesach.
Official stationary with a picture of the Baranovich Yeshiva building [and the address of the yeshiva office in New York]. 28 cm. Approx. 14 handwritten lines. Good condition. Folding marks and stains.
Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman stayed in New York to raise funds for his yeshiva in 1938-1939. (See Ohr Elchanan, Vol. 2, in the chapter about his journey to America, pages 173-217) – The end of the letter indicates that it was written in the winter of 1939, towards the end of Rabbi Elchanan's stay in the USA.

Letter regarding the struggle for the Torah education of the “Aliyat Ha'Noar” children. Handwritten and signed by the Brisker Rav, Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev HaLevi Soloveitchik. Jerusalem, Iyar 1949.
"…I have spoken to Rabbi Menachem Porush and have given him a copy of the letter from Aliyat HaNoar… about the new situation of accepting children in religious institutes and in yeshivot. And now they have already carried out their intentions and they have sent letters that until their demands regarding the education and the teachers will be fulfilled, they will absolutely not allow one child to enter these institutions…".
Official stationary, 27.5 cm. Approx. 12 lines in his handwriting. Good condition.
This important letter is unknown and not included in the collection of “Igrot Maran Riz HaLevi” (Jerusalem, 2008).

A long letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik, to Rabbi Eliezer Silver, New York, Tishrei 1940.
A letter requesting help for his brother the Ga’avad of Brisk who is in Vilna and whose situation has considerably worsened after the death of Rabbi Chaim Ozer. He quotes a letter that he received from Vilna written by Rabbi Yitchak Ze'ev on the 22nd of Elul regarding obtaining visas: "No real results have been received from the visas sent from America and the consul is to blame… and our eyes are turned to G-d's mercy. Obviously, after Rabbi Chaim Ozer's death, I have been left in a terrible situation". [Eventually Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev left Vilna for EretzYisrael on January 20, 1941].
Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik (1839-Shvat 1941), son of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk and older brother of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev of Brisk. Son-in-law of Rabbi Eliyahu Feinstein Av Beit Din of Pruzhany. A prominent Torah genius, renowned for his amazingly deep shiurim, he had thousands of disciples in Europe and the US. In 1910, he was asked to serve as Rabbi of Raszyn instead of Rabbi Alexander Moshe Lapidot, and at the initiative of the Saba of Slobodka, he established a yeshiva in the city consisting of select students of the Slobodka Yeshiva. In 1913, he moved to serve as Rabbi of Chaslowitz. In 1929, he immigrated to the USA to serve as the Head of the Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan Yeshiva instead of the "Prodigy of Molchad".
Official stationary, 28 cm. Written on both sides. Good-fair condition, folds and stains.
The letter from Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev quoted in this letter, is not known at all and is not included in the collection “Igrot Maran Riz HaLevi” (Jerusalem, 2008).

*Letter by Rabbi Shmuel Greineman to Rabbi Eliezer Silver. Miami, 1938. The letter deals with charity collections in Miami. Further in the letter he writes: "You have surely rushed the delivery to Rabbi Chaim Ozer for my brother-in-law. His situation causes much concern and I am not able to help him" [Apparently he is referring to the sustenance of his brother-in-law author of the “Chazon Ish”].
Postcards, approx. 14 cm. Good-fair condition.
* Long letter by Rabbi Shmuel Greineman to Rabbi Eliezer Silver. Chicago, 1938. In this letter, he writes of his wish to resign from his position in Mercaz HaChinuch. He announces that "G-d willing, when he receives a response from his brother-in-law, author of the Chazon Ish, he will submit his resignation".
4 pages, 23 cm. Good-fair condition.
Rabbi Shmuel Greineman (1889-1957), son-in-law of Rabbi Shemaryahu Yosef Karelitz, father of the Chazon Ish. An exceptional Torah scholar who accomplished much. Close to the Chafetz Chaim and Rabbi Chaim Ozer. Edited and published the Chazon Ish books authored by his brother-in-law Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz. (Most of the books have Rabbi Shmuel's address in Bnei Brak, author's name anonymous). Wrote the book “Chafetz Chaim al HaTorah” and other books on teachings of his teacher and Rabbi author of the “Chafetz Chaim”.

A long letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi David Tevli Katzenelbogen Rabbi of Leningrad, to his relative ("my brother-in-law's grandson"), Rabbi Eliezer Silver in the USA. Leningrad (formerly Petersburg), Sivan 1928.
In his letter, he relates of the rabbis in Bolshevik Russia and their difficulties: "… they are very great and excel in Torah and fear of Heaven. If not for them, Jews would have already forgotten the Torah… and only a few rabbis who are willing to forfeit their lives, each in his congregation and to the best of his ability and beyond, to uphold the Torah". He hints to the revolutions in Russia "you are not permitted to write things given orally".
In the continuation of the letter, he complains that the assistance funds of “Ezrat Torah” that arrive from the USA do not reach their primary goal, to support rabbis and Torah yeshivot, but they fall into the hands of Lubavitchers. They use these monies to lure communities to Chassidut, while each of their yeshivot numbers no more than a few young men "who study only Chassidut… and all their strength and will is to teach laws of Shechita and Bedika so they will be shochtim and bodkim in small communities, and Chassidut will be their trade, to enable them to teach others".
Rabbi David Tevli Katzenelbogen (1850-1930), was a magnificent figure amongst Lithuanian rabbis and the eldest of Russian rabbis. From his youth he was acknowledged as an amazing prodigy and at the age of sixteen already edited a short commentary on the Talmud Yerushalmi. Served in the rabbinate in Lithuania villages, in 1894, was appointed as Rabbi of Suwalki, a district city. In 1907, he was called to the capital city of Petersburg to serve as rabbi, where he was greatly honored by Jews and non-Jews alike. Even after the Bolshevik revolution, he remained in the rabbinate of the city re-named Leningrad. These were days of distress and hardship for rabbis and for Jewry. It is extraordinary that his book “Mei Naftoach” on Tractate Yevamot was printed in Leningrad in 1924 by the printing press "The Red Propagandist" where the official newspaper “Izvestia” was printed. In 1928, he printed the book of his homiletics “Gam Ele Divrei David” in Leningrad.
Two pages, 27.5 cm. Good-fair condition, wear damage to paper folds.