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Collection of Certificates and Rabbinical Letters from Various Places – Matters Pertaining to Gittin and Kiddushin – Most from First Half of 20th Century
Collection of more than 40 certificates, authorizations and rabbinical letters from various places around the world, dealing with matters pertaining to kiddushin, gittin and other topics. Europe, US and Eretz Israel, from the 1910s to the 1950s.
Most of the letters were sent to the Chief Rabbinate of Jaffa and Tel Aviv. Some are written on official stationery. Many bear official stamps of the Eretz Israel rabbinate and various inscriptions of rabbis in Eretz Israel who received the letters, primarily inscriptions in the handwriting of R. Ben-Zion Hai Uziel who served at that time as Chief Rabbi of Jaffa and Tel Aviv.
Letters signed by rabbis abroad:
R. Moshe Shimon Sivitz, Rabbi of Pittsburg, USA; R. David Fayans, Rabbi of Bialystok; R. Yechiel HaLevi Kestenberg Rabbi of Radom; R. Moshe Kohlenberg Rabbi of Metz; R. Moshe Chaim Mirvish, Rabbi of Cape Town; R. Yaakov Silverstein, Rabbi of the Praga quarter of Warsaw and member of the Vaad HaRabbanim of the Warsaw community; R. Yisrael Shlomo Rozenson rabbi in Kaunas; R. Yosef Yehuda Nebenzahl, Rabbi of Brodshin; R. Yehuda HaKohen Rubin, rabbi in Paris; R. Yaakov Freimann, Rabbi of Berlin; R. Avraham Yitzchak Faivelson, a founder and manager of Vaad HaRabbanim in New York; R. Elimelech Kovalenko, Rabbi of the Sefard Anshei Ostropoli Synagogue in Brooklyn; R. Zvi Hirsh Mendelson, Rabbi of Vizhnitz and posek of the Praga quarter of Warsaw; R. Shimon Yaakov HaLevi Gliksberg, Rabbi of Odessa; R. Shmuel Yom Tov HaLevi Brot, Rabbi of Antwerp; R. Yaakov Meir Segalowitz, Rabbi of Brussels; and others.
Letters with signatures by Eretz Israel rabbis:
Rishon LeZion R. Yaakov Meir; the chief rabbis of Haifa, R. Baruch Markus, R. Eliyahu Reine and R. Yehoshua Kaniel; Chief Rabbis of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, R. Shlomo HaKohen Aharonson, R. Moshe Avigdor Amiel and R. Ben Zion Hai Uziel; R. Avraham Werner, Rabbi of Netanya; R. Aharon Weinstein, dean of the Beit Yosef Novardok Yeshiva in Tel Aviv; more.
41 letters and authorizations. Size and condition vary. Overall good to fair-good condition.
PLEASE NOTE: Some lot descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to the Hebrew text.