Three letters on postcards by R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (author of Seridei Esh). Montreux (Switzerland), 1953-1954.

Sent to his friend Dr. Shmuel Greenberg in Tel Aviv (chairman of the Tel Aviv Council of Religion, formerly a director of the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin). In the three letters, R. Weinberg addresses various technical details related to reparations and payments from Germany. He considers and debates filling in the forms, and notes various details relating to his stay in Berlin before the war and his position before the war as yeshiva dean and rector of the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin.
At the close of the 1954 letter, he suggests Dr. Greenberg could edit a memorial volume for the Seminary.

R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (1884-1966), famous posek and Torah scholar, and a leading disciple of the Alter of Slabodka. He served as head of the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, during the Holocaust as president of the Union of Rabbis in the Warsaw ghetto, and after the Holocaust as yeshiva dean in Montreux. His books include Responsa Seridei Esh and more.

The recipient of the letters, R. Dr. Shmuel Greenberg (1880-1959), graduate of the Pressburg yeshiva and the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, where he later served as lecturer and director. In 1936, he immigrated to Eretz Israel, where he served as chairman of the Council of Religion in Tel Aviv, member of the national Mizrachi board of directors, member of the Organization for Refugee Rabbis and founder of Torah and educational institutions in Eretz Israel.

3 postcards. Approx. 15x10 cm. Good condition. Stains and some wear. Postage stamps and postmarks.

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