Auction 10 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Regulations for Agunot of Army Soldiers – Vienna, 1915

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“To all Rabbis and teachers… and people who are conscripted into the army”. A printed page of the rabbinical letters with regulations for the soldiers agunot [during World War I?]. Vienna, [1915?].
Letter by Rabbi David Zinger Rabbi in Pilzna, “each man who goes into the army should make a statement in front of two witnesses and a scribe that he commands them to write a get and give it to his wife… in an emergency one can be lenient”. Letter by Rabbi Meir Arak, Rabbi in Buchach, “I have seen what the Rav of Pilzna wrote, and his intentions are good to save Jewish ladies from becoming agunot…”, and a halachic letter by Rabbi Yosef Engel.
34cm. fair to good condition, tears with no damage to text.
Doesn't appear in the Bibliography Institute CD.
Books printed in Austria
Books printed in Austria