Lengthy letter (17 lines) handwritten and signed by R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz, dean of the Kamenets yeshiva. [Kamenets?], 4th Adar 1939.

A request for assistance to the kollel in the Kamenets yeshiva, which was established at that time. Sent to his relative R. Yechezkel Abramsky, head of the London Beit Din (their wives were cousins).
The letter tells of the establishment of the kollel a year earlier, and of the need to expand the number of students. He signs: "his wife's relative, Baruch Dov Leibowitz, dean of the Beit Yitzchak yeshiva".

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, before finally settling in Kamenets. He authored Birkat Shmuel on Talmudic topics. His teachings and writings are classics of in-depth yeshiva study.

[1] leaf, official stationery. 28 cm. Good condition. Stains. Folding marks. Small marginal tears.

The present letter was published in Yeshurun, XXI, 2009, Yechi Reuven, pp. 396-397.

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