Diverse collection of over thirty letters and certificates signed by various rabbis: recommendations, certificates, and various forms and documents. Eastern Europe and Palestine, ca. 1930s-1940s. Some on official stationery with official stamps. Some letters include draft responses, stamps, and notes by the recipient rabbis (including R. Moshe Avigdor Amiel, Rabbi of Tel Aviv).

Most letters relate to requests for immigration certificates to Palestine and recommendations for immigrants. Some were written in 1940 when Jews from occupied Europe attempted to escape the Holocaust and flee to Mandatory Palestine.

Included in the lot:
• Letter from R. Baruch Mordechai HaCohen Rappoport (grandson of the "Beit Shmuel" of Slonim) to R. Moshe Avigdor Amiel, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv – obtaining immigration certificates for himself and his father R. Avraham Abele HaCohen Rappoport, Av Beit Din of Kielce (son-in-law of the Rebbe of Slonim, author of "Beit Shmuel"), who fled destitute to Vilna in independent Lithuania after the Nazi occupation of Poland. Vilna, Adar 1940.
• Letter from R. Yitzchak Rubinstein, rabbi of the "Mizrachi" community in Vilna. Vilna, Shevat 1940. Draft response by R. Amiel in the margin.
• Letter from R. Eliezer Liebschitz, Av Beit Din of Zduńska Wola, [1930].
• Letter of recommendation from R. Chaim Menachem Mendel HaLevi Kastenberg, Rabbi of Radom. Radom, 1933.
• Letter from R. Chaim Baruch HaCohen Gerstein, Av Beit Din of Siemiatycze – recommendation for a meat wholesaler from his town who immigrated to Eretz Israel. Siemiatycze, 1935.
• Letter of recommendation for a mohel from R. Shabtai son of R. Ozer Alpert, Av Beit Din of Polanka. Polanka, 1935.
• Letter from R. Leibush Rosenberg, chairman of the "Rabbinical Committee" in Lodz. Lodz, 1935.
• Letter of recommendation regarding kashrut from the "Council of Rabbis of Warsaw", signed by committee member R. Yitzchak Meir Kanal and secretary R. Yaakov Gesundheit. Warsaw, Cheshvan 1932.
• Letter of recommendation regarding kashrut from R. Simcha Treistman, member of the "Council of Rabbis" in Lodz. Lodz, 1935.
• Letter of recommendation regarding kashrut from R. Azriel Zelig Rosenstein, member of the "Council of Rabbis" in Lodz. Lodz, 1935.
•Three letters of recommendation from leaders of the Koźminek community (Kalisz district, Poland), 1935.
• Employment confirmation for the rabbi of "Beit HaMidrash VeHaTefillah of the Piltz Chassidim" in Częstochowa. Częstochowa, 1935.
• Employment confirmation for R. Hillel Gantzarski as rabbi in Lodz. Lodz, 1935.
• Employment confirmation for R. Moshe Binyamin Lehman as rabbi of the "Chevra Kadisha" Beit Midrash in Radomsko. Radomsko, 1935.
• Employment confirmation for R. Mordechai Tregetz as gabbai and Chazan in Kłodawa. Kłodawa, Poland, 1935.
• Certificate confirming R. Yechiel Srualov as rabbi of the "Nachalat Yaakov" synagogue in the Nachalat Shiva neighborhood in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, 1934.
• Employment contract for R. Chaim Pesachowitz as rabbi of the Beit Midrash of the "Torah VaDa'at" organization in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, 1932.
• Confirmation from R. Asher Sandomierski, director of "Or Zoreach" Yeshiva in Jaffa, that the bachur Nechemia Fishman from Lublin was accepted to the yeshiva. Tel Aviv, 1936.
• Confirmation from R. Shmuel Weingurt, member of the Chassidic Beit Din in Jerusalem, that Shlomo Friedfeldstein studied for several years in his yeshiva in Plauen, Germany. Jerusalem, Kislev 1938.
• Letter from R. Moshe Moschil Hirschhorn, shochet, chazan, and mohel in Zagórz, to Dr. Yosef Pomork of Tel Aviv concerning the obtaining of an immigration certificate to Eretz Israel. Zagórz, Galicia, 1936.
• Additional letters, approvals, and various certificates.

31 letters and documents. Size and condition vary.

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