Interesting letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Moshe Leib Shneider, Head of Torat Emet Yeshiva. London, [World War II, c. 1943].
In a letter sent to Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Rabbi of Jersey City in the US, Rabbi Shneider relates his history of teaching Torah in Frankfurt and London. He tells of the yeshiva's hardships and the miracles of its rescue in the days of trembling and terror [the blitz on London]. He requests assistance for the yeshiva from US charity organizations and from Ezrat Torah and Central Relief.
Rabbi Moshe Shneider (1885-1955, Otzar HaRabbanim 15202), close disciple of the Chafetz Chaim who married Rabbi Moshe to a disciple's orphaned daughter who the Chafetz Chaim raised in his home. He lived in Memel and in Frankfurt where he established yeshivas in the method of Lithuanian yeshivas. In 1939, he fled Nazi Germany to London together with his disciples where he founded the Torat Emet Yeshiva renowned by the name of Shneider's Yeshiva.
The recipient: Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Bloch (1866-1948) author of Divrei Chiba, disciple of Kelm Yeshiva and a disciple of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik in Volozhin Yeshiva. In 1891, he established the Plungian Yeshiva [there studied his disciple who was like a son to him, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, the Ponevezh Rav] and in 1999, he moved to serve as Rabbi of Palanga and Boisk in Latvia. In 1923, he immigrated to the US and became one of the foremost rabbis and one of the heads of Agudat HaRabbanim and Ezrat Torah.
Official stationary, 26 cm. approximately 20 handwritten lines. Very good condition.
From the archive of Rabbi Eliezer Silver.