Printed receipt for the Kamenets yeshiva in Poland, filled in by hand and signed by the yeshiva dean R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz. Brooklyn, [Cheshvan] 1928.
Receipt written for the donor R. Refael Horowitz of Brooklyn for his contribution of three dollars. Written by R. Baruch Ber on his well-known journey to the United States in 1928-1929.
In the late 1920s, the financial state of Polish yeshivas badly deteriorated, and the yeshiva dean R. Baruch Ber was compelled to leave his students in the Kamenets yeshiva and travel overseas for a long fundraising expedition in the United States, along with his son-in-law R. Reuven Grozovsky. During that period, he stayed in the house of R. Yaakov Yosef Herman in the United States (see: All for the Boss, pp. 59-67, Feldheim Publishers, 1984).

R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz (1864-1939), author of Birkat Shmuel, leading Torah disseminator in his times. He was a disciple of R. Chaim of Brisk in the Volozhin yeshiva, and the son-in-law of R. Avraham Yitzchak Zimmerman, Rabbi of Hlusk. After his father-in-law went to serve as rabbi of Kremenchuk, he succeeded him in Hlusk and established a yeshiva. After a 13-year tenure, he was asked to head the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshiva in Slabodka. During World War I, he wandered with the yeshiva to Minsk, Kremenchuk and Vilna, finally settling in Kamenets. He authored Birkat Shmuel on Talmudic topics. His teachings and writings are classics of in-depth yeshiva Torah study.

[1] leaf. 13.5X11 cm. Good condition. Stains.