Letter, decorated with calligraphic script in color - congratulations from the deans of the Doresh Tzion yeshiva in Jerusalem, on the occasion of the wedding of the daughter of the philanthropist R. Naftali Prague, to the son of R. Gumpel Edinger. Signed by three Jerusalem Torah scholars, disciples of the Chatam Sofer. Jerusalem, Iyar [1874]. Hebrew and Yiddish. Signatures in Hebrew and German.
The letter is signed by: R. "Yitzchak [Oplatka] of Prague - Isak Prager", R. "Yonah Leib Mendlsohn" and R. "Aharon Moshe Baumgarten".
R. Yitzchak Oplatka of Prague (1819-1900, HaChatam Sofer VeTalmidav, pp. 240-241), a disciple of the Chatam Sofer in the Pressburg yeshiva, immigrated in his youth to Jerusalem in 1838 where he married the daughter of R. Baruch Ayash, a Sephardic Torah scholar in the city. He was an outstanding Torah scholar and communal worker. He authored Pri Yitzchak (Jerusalem, 1909). He was a dean of the Doresh Tzion yeshiva, which he founded in 1866 together with his colleagues R. Yonah Leib Mendlsohn-Lebel and R. Moshe Aharon Baumgarten.
R. Yonah Leib Mendlsohn-Lebel (1816-1886, HaChatam Sofer VeTalmidav, pp. 191-192), disciple of the Chatam Sofer. He immigrated in his youth to Jerusalem in 1836, and was one of the founders of the Hungarian Kollel - Shomrei HaChomot. He travelled abroad several times as emissary of the Kollel.
R. Moshe Aharon Baumgarten (1812-1877, HaChatam Sofer VeTalmidav, pp. 55-57), disciple of the Chatam Sofer. He studied under R. Mordechai Banet in Nikolsburg and R. Baruch Fränkel in Leipnik. He immigrated in his youth to Safed in 1834, and following the 1837 earthquake, relocated to Jerusalem. He was one of the founders of Hungarian Kollel and of the Chatam Sofer yeshiva, established in the memory of his saintly teacher.
[1] leaf. 26.5 cm. Thin, bluish paper. Good condition. Minor creases and stains. Wear to lower margin.