Auction 33 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Collection of Letter by Heads of Yeshivas – US

Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium
Collection of letter by heads of yeshivas and Torah institutes of education in the US sent to Rabbi Eliezer Silver.
We will note a partial list of the writers of the letters, some were famous Torah leaders: Rabbi Sheftil Kramer (founder and head of the first yeshiva in the US established in the manner of European yeshivas in New Haven and afterward in Cleveland and Baltimore. Brother-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein and Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, and Rabbi Ruderman's father-in-law): Rabbi Yechiel Michel Gordon (Head of Lomza Yeshiva, letter from 1942 concerning rescue from the Holocaust); Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch (founder and Head of Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland); Rabbi Mordechai Gifter (Telz Yeshiva, two letters, one has Torah thoughts); Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz (Telz Yeshiva. Two letters, one from 1941 concerning the rescue of Telz Yeshiva from the Holocaust); Rabbi Ya'akov David Sefsel (the Genius of Visky); Rabbi Chaim Heller (author of Sefer HaMitzvot); Rabbi Aharon Chaim Zimmerman (Chicago); Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Carob (Chicago); Rabbi Yisrael Ze'ev Gustman (Head of Ramailes Yeshiva – Netzach Yisrael); Rabbi Baruch Kaplan (founder of the Beit Ya'akov Seminary in the US. Two letters, on polemic regarding Torah U'Mesorah); etc.
20 letters. Varied size and condition, most in good condition and on official stationary.
Archive of Rabbi Eliezer Silver
Archive of Rabbi Eliezer Silver