Four letters handwritten and signed by R. Shmuel Meir HaKohen (Maharsham) Hollander, to Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. [Tel Aviv, ca. 1950s.]

Two letters on official stationery, another letter on aerogram, and a lengthy letter (6 large pages, written on both sides) on normal paper.

The letters deal with printing books and approbations to them, requests for financial assistance, his children's marriages, names to be mentioned in prayer, and more. In the lengthy letter, R. Shmuel Meir has a learned discussion on divorce laws, and discusses at length the halachic and theoretical considerations regarding autopsies in Israel.

R. Shmuel Meir HaKohen Hollander (1889-1965), son of R. Natan David, Av Beit Din of Amsana (Mszana Dolna) and son-in-law of R. Shalom Hager of Storozhynets. A great scholar and a faithful Chassid, he was a disciple of Rebbe Shlomo (the first) of Bobov, and was close to the rebbes of Belz, Ruzhin, Vizhnitz and Sanz. From 1913, he served as Av Beit Din and posek in Chernivtsi, and after the Holocaust he immigrated to Israel where he served as the Rabbi of the Neve Tzedek neighborhood and the Kehal Chassidim synagogue in Tel Aviv. He kept a voluminous correspondence with the great contemporary scholars. He was an intimate associate of the Rabbi of Tchebin (Trzebinia), Rebbe Aharon of Belz and the Chazon Ish (see Pe'er Hador, IV, p. 191 for a photocopy of a responsum of the Chazon Ish to Rabbi Hollander). Some of his novellae were printed in Shem HaKohen (responsa and sermons), Maharsham HaKohen on the Torah and many articles. [His teachings are cited often in the MiGedolei HaTorah VeHaChassidut series and elsewhere.]

4 letters (6 leaves). Varying size and condition. Overall good condition.