Auction 12 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Two Photographs of Rabbis

Opening: $120
Sold for: $238
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1. The form of Rabbi Shmuel David Ungar Rabbi of Trnava. [Afer 1918].
Rabbi Shmuel David Ungar (1886-1945), Otzar HaRabbanim 19492) Rabbi of Trnava and Nitra and Chief Rabbi of Slovakia. A ga'on and tzaddik, he taught Torah to thousands of disciples for 40 years. During the holocaust, Nitra Yeshiva was the last one to close its doors in conquered Europe. After the yeshiva was abandoned, he escaped to the forests and hills, where he perished in 1945. He was the father in law of the Sanz-Kloisenberg Admor, and of Rabbi Weissmendel, active in the rescue of Jews during the holocaust and founder of the Nitra Yeshiva in the US.
2. A photograph of a Rabbi [Polish or Lithuanian ?], pasted on cardboard. The photographer: Zilberstein, Gora Kalwaria), Poland, year not recorded.
Varied size. Stains and folding marks.
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