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Collection of Rabbis' Letters – Lithuania, Latvia and Poland – 1900s-1930s

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Large assorted collection of over fifty letters from rabbis, Torah scholars and other figures. Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Russia. Ca. 1900s-1930s.


• Two letters from R. Tzvi Hirsch HaKohen Walk, Rabbi of Pinsk. 1902.
• Lengthy letter (4 pages) from R. Chizkiyahu Yosef Mishkovsky, during his tenure as Rabbi of Zhaludok (Poland, present-day Belarus). 1913.
• Letter from R. Avraham Yaakov HaKohen of Vilna (son of the Cheshek Shlomo). Tevet 1937.
• Letter from R. Yitzchak Begun, Rabbi of Židikai (Lithuania). Adar I 1932.
• Letter from R. Yitzchak Eizik Friedman, Rabbi of Tauragė. [1932].
• Letter from R. Yechiel Michel Berkman, Rabbi of Orikhiv (Taurida governorate, Russia; present-day Ukraine). 1908.
• Letter from R. Yosef Yoselevitz, Rabbi of Trzcianne. Trzcianne, Elul 1913.
• Two letters from R. Shlomo Natan Kotler (Rabbi of Luokė and Detroit) to R. Shlomo Yaakov Schein, Rabbi of Leckava (Lithuania). Memel (Klaipėda), 1933.
• Letter from R. Menachem Tzvi Taksin (author of many books including Or Torah and Ateret Tzvi). Brisk, Tishrei 1912.
• Letter (2 pages) from R. Yaakov Leibschitz, Rabbi of Konin (Poland), Sivan 1926.
• Letter from the Bureau for Agunot headed by the Devar Avraham of Kovno, signed by R. Eliezer Eliyahu Friedman. Kovno (Kaunas), 1932.
• Letter from R. Avraham HaKohen Levin, Rabbi of Papilė (Lithuania), Av 1937.
• Letter from R. Leib Schneider, Rabbi of Žeimelis (Lithuania), [ca. 1937].
• Two letters from R. Nata Yerachmiel Litvin, Rabbi of Kuršėnai (Lithuania). 1934-[ca. 1937].
• Letter from R. Yitzchak Yaffe, Rabbi of Upyna (Lithuania). Sivan 1934.
• Letter from R. Avraham HaKohen Weisbord, Rabbi of Smolensk. Jerusalem, Cheshvan 1935 (about a month and a half before his passing).
• Seven letters from R. Yochanan Mirsky, Rabbi of Zabłudów (Lithuania, present-day Poland). Zabłudów, 1928-1938.
• Six letters from R. Aharon Milevsky, Rabbi of West Alytus (later Rabbi of Montevideo, Uruguay). Alytus (Lithuania), 1934-1937.
• Three letters from R. Shalom Yitzchak Levitan, Rabbi of Švėkšna (Lithuania). 1937-1939.
• Two letters from R. Shmuel Menachem Liev, Rabbi of the Ashkenazic community in Kremenchuk. Ca. 1933-1934.
• Letter from R. Shraga Feitel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of Izabelin (Lithuania, present-day Izabyelin, Belarus). Montreal (Canada), Tamuz 1930.
• Letter from R. Levi Yitzchak Ovchinski (author of Nachalat Avot), Rabbi of Jelgava (Latvia). Tevet 1934.
• Letter from R. Henich Etkin, Rabbi of Luga (near Leningrad) to his son-in-law R. David Cohen, the Nazir. Luga, Tamuz 1937.
• Letter from R. Yaakov Walch to R. Moshe Gutman (of Baranavichy). Haradzishcha, 1931.
• Letter from R. Shemariah Helfand, to his brother R. Zalman Shmuel Shapiro in the United States (later Rabbi of Denver, Colorado). [Bobr, Mogilev governorate, Russia (present-day Belarus)].
• Letter from R. Aharon Mendel Vidrevitz to R. Zalman Chasdan (a Chabad chassid in Gomel), regarding study of shechitah practice. [Babruysk], 1928.
• And many more letters.


Over 60 letters, over 55 of them are signed. Most on postcards. Varying size and condition.

Letters and Manuscripts – Rabbis of Lithuania, Poland and Other Countries
Letters and Manuscripts – Rabbis of Lithuania, Poland and Other Countries