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Collection of Letters – Deans of Lithuanian Yeshivas and the Vaad HaYeshivot in Vilna – Ca. 1920s-1930s
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Assorted collection of letters from yeshiva deans, community rabbis, yeshiva administrators, and the administration of the Vaad HaYeshivot in Vilna. Lithuania and Poland, [ca. 1920s-1930s].
• Letter (typewritten and unsigned) from the administration of the Baranovitch yeshiva headed by R. Elchanan Wasserman to R. Yisrael Yaakov Yaffe of Manchester. Shevat 1933. First page, without last page and signature.
• Receipt (in English) from the administration of the Or Torah yeshiva in Kelm, signed by rabbis of yeshiva R. Shlomo Pianko and R. Yitzchak Sadovski. Kelm, 1936.
R. Shlomo Pianko (perished in the Holocaust) was a distinguished Kelm alumnus, and served as lecturer in the Or Torah Kelm yeshiva for youth headed by R. Eliyahu Lopian.
• Letter of R. Chaim Walkin, lecturer in Volozhin yeshiva, regarding fundraisers. Volozhin, Nisan 1932. Open tear to side.
R. Chaim Walkin was the last dean of the Volozhin yeshiva (b. 1898, perished in the Holocaust with his entire family). A leading product of the Lithuanian yeshivas, student in Mir and Kelm, son of R. Aharon Walkin Rabbi of Pinsk, son-in-law of R. Yaakov Shapiro dean of Volozhin yeshiva and his successor from 1936.
• Letter of R. Yehudah Leib Analik Rabbi of Myszyniec on behalf of Beit Avraham yeshiva, to administration of the Vaad HaYeshivot in Vilna. Myszyniec, 1930.
R. Yehudah Aryeh Leib Analik Rabbi of Myszyniec (1884-1937), son of R. Shimon Dov Analik Rabbi of Siedlice (1848-1907), author of Orach Mishpat and Imrei Rashad, and uncle of R. Avraham Yaakov Pam, dean of Torah Vodaath yeshiva in the United States.
• Letter of R. Aharon Shmuel Tamares Rabbi of Milejczyce to administration of Vaad HaYeshivot, regarding fundraisers for the yeshiva. Milejczyce, 1929.
• Letter of R. Yitzchak Shlomo Gordin Rabbi of Mezeritch, to the administration of Vaad HaYeshivot regarding fundraising for yeshivot. Mezeritch (Velyki Mezhyrichi), 1930.
• Letter of R. David Faians of Bialystok, to the administrators of the Relief Fund, regarding budgets for the Tachkemoni Beit Midrash in the city. Bialystok, 1923.
• Letter of R. Yosef Shuv of Vilna (administrator of the Vaad HaYeshivot and confidant of R. Chaim Ozer). Addressed to Ze'ev Wolf Fischer-Schein in Eretz Israel. Vilna, Iyar 1938.
Apparently written on behalf of R. Chaim Ozer, who had asked them to consult with the Chazon Ish, regarding the Poalim organization in Eretz Israel and Shemitah observance.
• Six postcards addressed to the Vaad HaYeshivot from various locations.
14 letters (8 on official stationery and 6 postcards). Varying size and condition.
Letters
Letters