30 letters and documents, pertaining to R. Shalom Shachna Meisel, one of the directors of the "Tachkemoni" Talmud Torah in Bialystok, and to members of his family. Bialystok, Poland and elsewhere, ca. 1901 to 1935. Hebrew, Yiddish, German.
Collection of letters and documents, from the estate of R. Shalom Shachna Meisel of Bialystok. Including: ● 15 letters and drafts handwritten by S.S. Meisel (some of them lengthy; including letters to his daughter Malka and her husband R. Chaim Bernstein in Jerusalem, and a greeting for their marriage). ● A letter handwritten by R. Yitzchak Meisel, R. Shalom Shachna's father [son-in-law of the well-known Rabbi Aryeh Leib Yelin author of "Yeffe Enayim", a relative of R. Eliyahu Chaim Meisel Rabbi of Lodz]. ● A lengthy letter handwritten by Rabbi Dr. Gedalya Rosenman (who later served as one of the heads of the Judenrat of the Bialystok Ghetto) and two letters addressed to Rabbi Dr. Rosenman. ● A letter and postcard handwritten by Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Yaffeh [1853-1927, a well-known Torah scholar from Brisk, the son of Rabbi Mordechai Gimpel Yaffeh of the dignitaries of the Brisk community]. ● A recommendation letter, attesting to the virtues of R. Shalom Shachna Meisel, addressed to the heads of the worldwide "HaMizrachi" in Jerusalem, by the heads of the "HaMizrachi" branch in Bialystok (1936) and signed by Rabbi Heilperin of Bialystok and the leaders of "HaMizrachi" in the town (one typewritten copy and one handwritten copy). ● "Memorandum" printed after the foundation of the "Tachkemoni" School in Bialystok, calling to donate to the institution (one in Hebrew and the other in Yiddish). ● And additional items.
Size and condition vary. Some of the items in fair-poor condition, with stains, damp damage, creases and tears (especially to edges).