Letter (leaf written on both sides; approx. 14 lines), handwritten and signed by Rebbetzin Chayah Roiza Teitelbaum-Mayer, daughter of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. Addressed to their relative, the famed attendant R. Yosef Ashkenazi. [New York, ca. 1948]. Yiddish.
Written on a blank paper with no indication of location or date, apparently sent while living with her husband R. Chananiah Yom Tov Lipa in New York, soon before the establishment of the State of Israel (as intimated in one line of the letter).
Addressed to her relative, the famed attendant R. Yosel Ashkenazi, who was traveling at the time. She addresses financial and personal issues and mentions that she is awaiting the upcoming establishment of the State of Israel, with what may be a veiled reference to its secular identity. She offers good wishes and blessings, concluding with her signature.
On the verso of the leaf, the Rebbetzin adds (in English) an address and adds instructions about the money transfer (in Yiddish).
Rebbetzin Chayah Roiza, daughter of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. She married her cousin Rebbe Chananiah Yom Tov Lipa of Sassov (1906-1966), and escaped the Holocaust with her husband, reaching Eretz Israel through Romania. Her husband established the Yitav Lev yeshiva in Jerusalem and served as rabbi of the Ohel Rachel Satmar Beit Midrash in Jerusalem. In 1948 they immigrated to the United States to live with their father Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (who had reached the United States about a year and a half earlier), until her death, with no surviving children, on 14th Cheshvan 1953.
[1] leaves. Written on both sides. 21.5X10 cm. Good condition. Folding marks. Punctures on margins.
