Huge collection of letters sent to Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Greenberg, Chairman of the Tel Aviv Council of Religion (Hamoatza Hadatit). Most of the letters are from 1940-1950.
Letters from the rabbis of Tel Aviv and other rabbis, scientists and public figures, organizations and political parties. Letters of Torah thoughts and other rabbinical issues. Letters regarding public issues: invitations to various meeting, public conventions and support of She'erit HaPleita rabbis.
We will note several names out of the hundreds of people who signed the letters in this huge collection:
Rebbe Ya'akov Freidman of Husyatyn; his son-in-law Rabbi Y.Y. Boiminger; Rabbi Yosef Zvi HaLevi; Rabbi Meir Stalvitz; Rabbi Tuvia Yehuda Tevyomi; Rabbi Yechiel Ya'akov Weinberg; Rabbi Zvi Ya'akov Meltzer; Rabbi Pinchas Biberfeld; Prof. Chaim Pik; Rabbi Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan); Dr. Yosef Burg [signed halachic response]; Rabbi Yehuda HaCohen Fishman (Maimon); Hans Bayit; Dr. M. A. Shulvas; Yisrael Zarchi; and dozens more.
Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Greenberg (1880-1959), born in Moineşti (Romania), studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva and the Beit Midrash L'Rabbanim in Berlin where he later lectured. Chairman of the Mizrachi Union in Germany. In 1936, ascended to Eretz Israel, was chosen as Chairman of the Council of Religion (Hamoatza Hadatit) in Tel Aviv, member of the national Mizrachi board of directors, member of the Organization for refugee rabbis and founder of Torah and education institutes in Eretz Israel.
Approximately 300 letters, varied size and condition. Most of the letters are written in Hebrew, the rest in German and other languages.