Large collection of letters sent to Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis, Ga'avad of the Edah HaCharedit in Jerusalem.
• Large bundle of letters regarding the Bukhara Get. Jerusalem, 1941. This topic caused an upheaval in the rabbinic world of those times. The Get involved an agunah who ascended from Bukhara to Jerusalem and whose husband remained behind the Iron Curtain and was not permitted to immigrate. To release his wife, the husband sent a letter instead of a Get which had many loopholes which could render it unfit. Many rabbis searched for ways to prove it kosher. See Kuntress Igeret Gerushin in Aderet Eliyahu, Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 213-250. These letters were not printed in the Kuntress.
• Halachic responsum pertaining an agunah from the Holocaust, (4 leaves) signed by Rabbi Chaim Ya'akov ben Mordechai Rottenberg Av Beit Din of Antwerp.
• Letters by US rabbis and others: Letter by Rabbi Yosef Avigdor Kessler, Los Angeles; letter by Rabbi Mordechai Zvi Shwartz, Cleveland; letter by Rabbi Elchanan Zvi Gutterman, Rabbi of Scranton and its region; letter by Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henken; etc. • Letter by Rabbi Shmuel Abba Snieg, Chairman of Va'ad Agudat HaRabbanim in the American zone of Munich, [one of the rabbis of She'erit HaPleita] regarding the well-known Munich Talmud printed by Rabbi Snieg. • Letter by Rabbi Efraim Zalman Halprin, requesting setting a day of prayer after the killing of 42 men on a convoy to Mount Scopus in 1948.
• Letters about the Holocaust: Letter by Rabbi Efraim Oshri, about his book on the Holocaust events. Letters about the book written in memory of Latvian Jewry.
Approximately 19 letters, varied size and condition.

A telegram of protest by the US Union of Rabbis to the editor of HaTzofeh newpaper [with copies to the editors of Hamodia and Ma'ariv], against Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fishman-Maimon, for degrading the honor of the Brisker Rabbi, [USA, Iyar 1958]. Hebrew in Latin letters.
"Please publish the following telegram which we have sent to Rabbi Maimon: His coarse and uncouth attack on the Torah leader of our generation the Brisker Rabbi which is full of libels and lies and whose aim is to humiliate the honor of Torah and the honor of the Torah leaders of our generation and to instigate a quarrel between the Chief Rabbis and the Brisker Rabbi, shocked the entire Torah world and Charedi population. We express the Torah opinion that the ruling for a person who wrote the attack on the Brisker Rabbi is as stated explicitly in the Rambam Talmud Torah, Chapter 6… and in the Tur Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah Siman 243 [The laws of honoring a Torah scholar]… We call upon him to retract his words and to repent. Agudat HaRabanim".
The telegram was signed by the president of Agudat Rabanim [Union of Rabbis], Rabbi Eliezer Silver and by Rabbi Pinchas Teitz, Rabbi David Lifshitz and Rabbi Meir Cohen.
In the month of Iyar 1958, the Ma'ariv newspaper published a letter which Rabbi Maimon sent to the US Union of Rabbis in honor of the inauguration of the Heichal Shlomo building in Jerusalem [the former premises of the Chief Rabbinate and the Great Rabbinical Beit Din. The plan of the founders of Heichal Shlomo was to form a Global Spiritual Center. This invoked a vigorous protest by the Brisker Rabbi who feared the plan to form a new Sanhedrin in our generation]. In his letter, Rabbi Maimon belittled the Brisker Rabbi and used degrading language in a coarse and outspoken manner. The words of Rabbi Maimon caused a great upheaval and this telegram of protest followed. [Actually, the Brisker Rabbi requested that no protest be expressed because of the insult to his honor and even delayed the publication of this letter in the Hamodia newspaper. See Attached material].
18 cm. Good condition.

Letter of thanks for receiving books for the yeshiva's library, signed by the head of the yeshiva Rabbi "Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik" and stamps of "The Brisk Yeshiva – in Jerusalem". Jerusalem, Adar 1967.
Rabbi Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik (1916-1981), firstborn of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev of Brisk. During the Holocaust, immigrated with his father to Jerusalem, and together they established the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and later stood at its head. Considered one of the greatest rabbis of the last generation. His son who succeeded him is Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik, who now heads the yeshiva.
Postcard, 9.5X14.5 cm. Good condition, folding crease.