Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Marriage Permits for Agunot of Holocaust Victims - Hungary, 1946-1952

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Seven documents signed by rabbis and dayanim, including five pertaining to marriage permits for women whose husbands had perished in the Holocaust. Hungary, 1946-1952. Four of the documents include a photograph of the recipient of the marriage permit.
• Two marriage permits issued by special Beit Din for Agunot under the Central Bureau for Orthodox Jewry in Hungary, signed by R. Yaakov Segal Leibowitz (rabbi of Kapish), R. Yisrael Welcz and R. Avraham Eliezer Czitron (of Dorog). Budapest, Cheshvan and Tammuz 1947-1948.
• Marriage permit issued by the special Beit Din for Agunot, under the Central Bureau for Orthodox Jewry in Hungary, signed by R. Yehoshua Lerner (rabbi of Volovets), R. Amram HaLevi Jungreis and R. Moshe Natan Schick. Budapest, Tevet 1952.
• Letter to the Budapest Beit Din, testimony received by three dayanim for the release of an agunah, with the dayanim’s signatures. Including a letter stamped by the Jewish community in Vásárosnamény. Adar I 1946.
• Letter to the Budapest Beit Din, testimony received by three dayanim for the release of an agunah, signed by the dayanim R. Elchanan Chaim Teitelbaum, R. Shmuel Krausz and R. "Yosef Yuzpa P---". Ujhel (Sátoraljaújhely), Kislev 1946.
• Marriage permit for a man wishing to marry the sister of his first wife who perished in the Holocaust, from the Satmar Beit Din, signed by the dayanim R. Shlomo Zalman Friedman and R. Avraham Tzvi Weiss. Satmar, [Kislev 1946].
• Responsum letter discussing the laws of writing a get (divorce document), by R. Moshe son of R. Yisrael Meir Kohen, head of the Pest Beit Din, addressed to the regional Beit Din of Haifa. Budapest, 1960.
7 signed documents. Size varies. Good condition.
Holocaust and She’erit Hapletah - Europe and the Far East
Holocaust and She’erit Hapletah - Europe and the Far East