Letter signed by R. Eliezer Yehudah Finkel, dean of the Mir yeshiva. Jerusalem: Elul 1949.

Typewritten, with R. Finkel's signature. Shanah Tovah blessing addressed to R. Yechezkel Abramsky, head of the Beit Din of London. The letter concludes with additional blessings and a signature.

R. Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (1879-1965), the son of the Alter of Slabodka, and son-in-law of R. Eliyahu Baruch Kamai, Rabbi of Mir and dean of the Mir yeshiva. He served as dean of the yeshiva in Mir. When the yeshiva fled to Vilna during the Holocaust, R. Eliezer Yehuda travelled to Eretz Israel in 1941, in attempt to bring the yeshiva over. His attempts failed, but the students managed to escape and flee to Shanghai, in the Far East. In 1943, he established the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem, which stands in its full glory to this day and is one of the largest yeshivot in the world.

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

The present letter was printed with a facsimile in Melech BeYofyo, p. 499.

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