A collection of over twenty certificates and letters from rabbis concerned with the annulment of marriages of single men and women who married fictitiously in Europe in order to obtain immigration visas (certificates) to Palestine. Europe and Israel, ca. 1930s.

In the 1920s and 1930s, due to the restrictions and immigration quotas imposed by the British Mandate authorities on immigration to Palestine, many single men and women in Europe entered into fictitious marriages in order to obtain an immigration visa that allowed married couples to immigrate under one single permit.
As a result, numerous discussions and testimonies were held in the rabbinical courts and offices across Palestine to issue "annulment of marriages" approvals.
Before us is a diverse collection of certificates, documents, and letters from rabbis in Palestine and Europe concerned with these issues (some on official stationery), some with various inscriptions from the rabbis of Palestine receiving the letters, including Rabbi Ben Zion Chai Uziel, and others.
Among the writers:
• Rabbi Levi Ovchinsky, rabbi of Mittau (Jelgava; 1871-perished in the Holocaust).
• Rabbi Chaim Dov Ber Ginzberg, rabbi of Dolhinov and Vancouver (d. 1963; son-in-law of Rebbe Chaim Yechiel Taub of Ożarów).
• Rabbi Yaakov Silberstein, rabbi of the Praga district in Warsaw and member of the rabbinical committee of the Warsaw community (d. 1941).
• Rabbi Yaakov Yechiel Rubinstein, dayan and posek in Warsaw.
• Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Mendelson, rabbi of Vishnitz and later dayan and posek in the Praga district of Warsaw.
• Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Rimalt, rabbi of Zhovkva (1875-1943, perished in the Holocaust).
• Rabbi Baruch Laznowski, rabbi of Ujazd and Pabianice, author of "Shashu'ei Ra'ayonim" (1899-1943, perished in the Holocaust).
• Rabbi Israel Meir Krinitzky, rabbi of Lentvaris (Landwarów; perished in the Holocaust).
• Rabbi Yehoshua ben Yehuda Shraga Abelson, rabbi of Gomel and Vysotsky (1888-1942, perished in the Holocaust).
• Rabbi Shmuel Rudnia, dayan and posek in Kovno, and Rabbi Gershon Leib Gutmann, dayan and posek in Kovno.
• Rabbi Israel Shlomo Rosensohn, dayan and posek in Kovno (1888-1940).
• Rabbi Yochanan Zupovitz (Zarchi), rabbi of Radviliškis, later of Tiberias (1874-1947).
• Rabbi David Avigdor, rabbi of Andrychów (1898-perished in the Holocaust).
• Rabbi Israel Heilpern, rabbi of Zelichov.
• Rabbi Shmuel Aharon Shazuri (Weber).
• Rabbi Binyamin Movshovitz, rabbi of Herzliya (1893-1953).
• And others.

22 letters and certificates. Size and condition vary.

PLEASE NOTE: Some lot descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to the Hebrew text.