Archives of philanthropist Rabbi Shalom Yoel Yavner of Switzerland. Letters from Rabbis and documents.
In the archives: letters and signatures from various Rabbis requesting his favours and extending their thanks, included: Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi Shneur Kotler [and his family], Rabbi Mordechai Shulman, Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz, Rabbi Chaim Shmuel Lopian, Rabbi Yitzchak Kulitz, Rabbi Yosef Liss, Rabbi Shlomo Brevda, Rabbi Binyamin Beinish Finkel, Rabbi Avraham Farbstein, Rabbi Ya'akov Chaim Sarna [and his family], and many more.
Letters from the administration of yeshivas and other Torah institutions, including: Ponevezh Yeshiva (with photograph), chevron Yeshiva, Slabodka Yeshiva, and Rabbi Chaim Berlin Metivta; chequebook of Yavner (without cheques), registered on the stubs are names of yeshivas and rabbis [Rabbis: Soloveichik, Abramski and others] and the sum of the donation received from him. Telegrams, one from Rabbi Kahanemann. A lengthy letter exchange addressing the medical recovery of the wife of one of the Yeshiva principles; personal letters from friends of Rabbi Shalom Yoel Yavner, documents relating to the dispute in the Yeshiva of Nechalim.
Rabbi Shalom Yoel Yavner (d.???), student of Telz, settled in Switzerland after the war, renowned as a philanthropist and dedicated communal worker. He bequeathed his fortune to a special trust fund providing for yeshivas.
Approx. 80 items (paper). Varying state and size.