Collection of photographs - family members of the Aruch LaNer. [Germany, ca. second half of the 19th century].
Collection of some 75 photographs of family members of the Aruch LaNer, most of them carte de visite or cabinet card photographs bearing the photographers' details (photographed in Berlin, Breslau and other cities).
Most of the photographs presumably portray the descendants of R. Yisrael Meir Freimann Rabbi of Ostrowa, son-in-law of the Aruch LaNer. Organized in a fine contemporary album, which opens with a photograph of R. Yisrael Meir Freimann (mounted on card, with the gilt inscription: "Portrait of the great rabbi and Torah scholar, R. Yisrael Meir Freimann…").
Apart from the album, the collection includes an additional photograph of R. Yisrael Meir Freimann (framed); a photograph of another son-in-law of the Aruch LaNer - R. Mordechai (Markus) HaLevi Horovitz Rabbi of Frankfurt am Main, author of Mateh Levi, Avnei Zikaron and Rabbanei Frankfurt; a photograph of the cast of a Purim performance in costumes in Fulda; and more.
R. Yisrael Meir Freimann (1830-1884), son-in-law of the Aruch LaNer, rabbi of Filehne (Wieleń) and Ostrowa (Ostrów Wielkopolski, Posen Province), author of Anfei Yehuda on VeHizhir. He exchanged extensive correspondence with his father-in-law the Aruch LaNer on various topics, some of which was published in Responsa Binyan Tzion, mostly in part III of the new edition of Likutei Teshuvot - Binyan Tzion (Dvar Yerushalayim publication, Jerusalem 2002).
Approx. 75 photographs, most arranged in an album. Size and condition vary. Overall fair-good condition. Some photographs lacking in album. Damage to binding of album.