Lengthy letter handwritten and signed by R. Tzvi Hirsch Ferber, a senior rabbi of London. London, [1950].

Sent to the head of the London Beit Din, R. Yechezkel Abramsky. The letter relates to the confirmation ceremony for girls, a practice he says liberal Jews adopted from the Catholics. R. Ferber relates the history of the controversy surrounding the ceremony among English rabbis, as well as his firing from the rabbinate due to his uncompromising position along with Rabbi Dr. Schonfeld – opposing the view of Chief Rabbi Dr. Hertz (until he was reinstated by the leaders of his community). He says that he although he was threatened with firing, he refused to assent because all the leading rabbis of the generation he had asked had forbidden it when he brought up the issue at an assembly in Vienna.
R. Ferber asks R. Abramsky to convince the new Chief Rabbi Rabbi (Dr. Israel Brodie) to abolish the ceremony, and praises him as an upright person whose parents and grandfather he had previously known.

R. Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879-1966), a leading English rabbi. Born in Slabodka, he studied under R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor and under R. Yitzchak Blazer and R. Naftali Amsterdam, disciples of R. Yisrael Salanter. In 1910 he moved to England and was a pillar of Orthodox Judaism in London and England. He originally served as dean in the Manchester yeshiva, and many years later moved to serve as rabbi in west London.

[1] leaf, official stationery. 27 cm. Good condition. Stains and folding marks.

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