Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Collection of Letters and Documents – Etz Chaim Yeshiva
Opening: $300
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Collection of letters and documents, Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem, ca. 1900s-1930s. The collection includes: · A leaf of regulations to yeshiva students for "shemirat ha'sedarim" (keeping to the timetable of the study periods) and rules of additions to the routine allotments. Signed by the yeshiva management: Rabbi Yechezkel Lifshitz, Rabbi Nachum Rogosnitzky and Rabbi Aryeh Leib Gordon. [Jerusalem, ca. 1900-1910]. · Record of testing and allotments to excelling students, from the fund of prizes sponsored by the donor Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig Hershel, Jerusalem, Tishrei 1912. With penciled copy of the signatures of the testing committee, Rabbi Shlomo Gadol, Rabbi Yitzchak Meltzen, Rabbi Ben Zion Tzizling, etc. Among the excelling students are the names of boys and young men who later became renowned Torah scholars, such as Rabbi Asher Shulman, Rabbi Shmuel Gedalya Newman and Rabbi Matityahu Davis. · Long letter by Rabbi Meir Karelitz, Av Beit Din of Bilohirya (Lachovitz), concerning the fundraising on behalf of the yeshiva in Poland and elsewhere abroad. Bilohirya, 1934. · A large bundle of letters, correspondence with Rabbi Zevil Berzansky and his wife Ms. Basha Beila Berzansky of Chicago. Some letters have signatures of heads of yeshivot: Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky and Rabbi Zalman Zelaznik. Chicago and Jerusalem, 1920s-1930s. approximately 56 leaves. Size and condition vary.
Jerusalem Rabbis and Public Institutions – Letters, Manuscripts and Archives
Jerusalem Rabbis and Public Institutions – Letters, Manuscripts and Archives