Satmar institutions in Eretz Israel – large and assorted collection of letters, reports, documents and agreements. Israel and United States, 1950s-1970s. Hebrew and some Yiddish.

The collection includes nine letters to Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar: • Three letters from R. Chaim Eliyahu Sternberg on Satmar institutions in Jerusalem and Haifa, reports, quarrels and various subjects. Jerusalem and Haifa, 1959-1962; • Letter of the directors of the Ohel Rachel Beit Midrash in Katamon, regarding a leader of the prayer service touching his beard. Jerusalem, Cheshvan 1958; • Letter of the directors of the Yitav Lev yeshiva and Torah school in Katamon, requesting support and assistance. Jerusalem, 1956; • Letter of R. Ben Tzion Jakobowitz, director of the Satmar institutions in Bnei Brak, requesting prayer for a sick person and various subjects. Bnei Brak, 1961; • Letter of R. Shmuel Steinberg, quarrels and firings in the directorship of Satmar institutions in Bnei Brak. Jerusalem, 1961; • Letter of the committee of the Torah school and yeshiva of Satmar in Haifa, signed by R. Yeshayah Ze'ev Gross, requesting assistance and support. Haifa, 1961; • Report (one page, incomplete) on the activity of the Machazikei Torah institution in Haifa. Haifa, 1961. 

The collection also includes over 40 letters sent to the attendant R. Efraim Yosef Dov Ashkenazi by directors of Satmar institutions in Eretz Israel and members of the Edah HaCharedit in Jerusalem – R. Chaim Eliyahu Sternberg; R. Chananya Yom Tov Lipa ("Chayil") Schwartz; R. Ben Tzion Jakobowitz, director of Maharit yeshiva and founder of the Kiryat Yoel neighborhood in Bnei Brak; R. Yisrael Yitzchak HaLevi Reisman, dayan of the Edah HaCharedit; R. Yosef Scheinberger, secretary of the Edah HaCharedit, the Health Fund for Yeshiva Students, and more. Letters on various subjects – supporting and funding the institutions; resolving disputes and quarrels in the directorship of the institutions; ownership of buildings and campuses; various appointments; reports of income and expenses; names of students and teachers, their salaries and stipends; recommendations; the Rebbe's upcoming visit in summer of 1952; erecting a new building for the Torah school and yeshiva in Jerusalem; building Satmar institutions in Bnei Brak and the Kiryat Yoel neighborhood; questions about money from funds received; repossessing the house of the Rabbi of Tolcsva (father-in-law of the Yitav Lev) in the Old City of Safed; on the dispute with the Rebbe of Sanz-Klausenburg; the publication in Hamodia of an apology by R. Yechezkel Sarna, dean of the Chevron Yeshiva, for his statement on not voting in elections; and various different other subjects. Jerusalem and Haifa, 1960s-1970s.

• Five letters to R. Shlomo Braver (director of the Yitav Lev office in Brooklyn for support of Satmar institutions in Eretz Israel), from R. Chaim Eliyahu Sternberg, R. Aharon Berkowitz and the Health Fund for Yeshiva Students, regarding the institutions and financial support. Jerusalem and Haifa, 1956-1961.

• Letter to R. Simchah Bunam Sofer, invitation from the Edah HaCharedit directorship to participate in the reception for Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, to be held in the Jerusalem train station. Jerusalem, 1959.

• Letter signed by the directors of the Center for Torah Lectures for Youth and Adults in Jerusalem, R. Moshe Weber and R. Yehudah Deutsch, a request for support by R. Moshe Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Sighet (later the Berach Moshe Rebbe of Satmar), head of the committee to save Moroccan children. Jerusalem, 1969.

• Letter signed by the directors of the Union of Yeshivas in Eretz Israel, R. Eliyahu Zlotnik, dayan of the Edah HaCharedit; and R. Yitzchak David Shag (Zwebner), on appointing R. Mendel Bernet as emissary to raise funds for the institution. Elul, 1956.

The collection additionally includes documents, contracts, agreements and protocols: • Legal agreement (3 typewritten pages, unsigned) between the Yitav Lev Torah school and a contracting company to build the Satmar institutions on Yechezkel Street and Avinoam Yellin Street in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, 1960; • Report (five typewritten pages, incomplete) sent to the Satmar Rebbe by R. Chaim Eliyahu Sternberg regarding the directorship of the yeshiva and Beit Midrash, detailing income and expenses, names of teachers and students, total salaries, legal matters, and more; • Two documents detailing the names of people receiving a stipend from Yitav Lev yeshiva and Torah school in Jerusalem [ca. 1950s]; • Report of R. Yosef Scheinberger, secretary of the Edah HaCharedit, on his visit in Chassidic communities in England and Switzerland (4 pp.); • Protocol of the Ohel Rachel Satmar Beit Midrash, regarding the ownership dispute over the Beit Midrash building. Jerusalem, 1963; • Printed leaf – "Instructions for the teachers in our holy yeshiva as we merited to hear from our Rebbe", with 16 instructions.

• And more.

Over 70 items. Varying size and condition. Overall good condition.