Two letters (in Yiddish), which were sent to Rabbi Shmuel Salant, from Rabbi “Yosef son of Moshe HaLevi Kronheimer”, Melbourne (Australia), 1892-1894.
The charitable Rabbi Yosef Kronheimer, from a small Jewish community in Australia in the late 19th century. Originally from Bialystok in Poland. Was in contact with Torah institutions in Jerusalem from approximately 1890. When Rabbi Yosef Rivlin and Rabbi Avraham Shaulson travelled to Australia in 1890 as part of rabbinical emissary to raise funds for the “Va’ad HaKlali”, Rabbi Yosef Kronheimer donated money for purchase of land upon which Knesset Yisrael neighborhood was built. In the following years he generously donated to Torah institutions in Jerusalem and in 1906, 12 apartments were built in the Kronheimer section of Knesset neighbourhood. [It has been related that he was greatly influenced to donate generously as a result of the fact that Rabbi Yosef Rivlin wrote to him in a letter that the Gematria (numerical value) of Yosef Kronheimer is equal to Eretz Israel].
2 letters, 26-27 cm. Good condition.