Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Large Collection of Letters of Rabbis and Tzedakah Collectors – Hungary, Ca. 1920s-19320s
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $6,250
Including buyer's premium
Large collection of over 150 letters and reports signed by rabbis, tzedakah collectors and various donors, addressed to Kollel Shomrei HaChomot – the Hungarian kollel. Hungary and Transylvania, and various countries, most ca. 1920s-1930s (a few earlier or later).
The rabbis whose signatures appear in the present collection include: • R. Yosef Elimelech Kahana, Rabbi of Ungvár (Uzhhorod) and president of the kollel. • R. Yeshayah Kleinman, dayan and posek of Kövesd, Kerestir and Satmar (nephew of R. Yeshayale of Kerestir). • R. Shmuel Zanvil Kahana-Fränkel, president of the Orthodox Bureau in Budapest. • R. Meir Chaim Ungar, Rabbi of Lackenbach (and after the Holocaust in Jerusalem). • R. Tzvi HaKohen Dick, head of the Ujhel Beit Din. • R. Yisrael Hillel Yitzchak HaKohen Steiner, Rabbi of Ilok. • R. Yerachmiel Katzburg, Rabbi of Ózd. • R. Peretz Tuviah Stein, Rabbi of Diósgyőr. • R. Nechemiah Weinberger, preacher in Marghita (with stamp of his grandfather, R. Yehoshua Aharon Tzvi Weinberger, Rabbi of Marghita). • Rebbe Yitzchak Mayer (the third) of Kalisz, author of Gedolim Tzaddikim (apparently perished in Holocaust, of the Premishlan dynasty, served as Rabbi of Magdeburg in 1930). • R. Yom Tov Lipa Goldman, dayan in Deutschkreutz. • R. Shmuel David Reinitz, posek in Tornaľa. • R. Yitzchak Shlomo Bruck of Ungvár (Uzhhorod), author of Sedei Besamim (3 letters). • R. Moshe Chaim Grünfeld, Rabbi of Sajószentpéter (perished in Holocaust, 1944). • R. Shmuel Segal Austerlitz, Rabbi of Miskolc (served as Chief Rabbi of Miskolc from 1914, d. 1939). • R. Moshe Yaakov Beck, Rabbi of Alsóapsa (Nyzhnya Apsha), head of the Sighet Beit Din after the Holocaust and rabbi in the Ahavat Torah community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. • R. Tzvi Hirsch HaKohen Kahn, Rabbi of Derecske (d. 1971). • And others.
Over 150 letters, postcards and paper items. Some on official stationery. Varying size and condition. Some with open tears and singeing (saved from fire), affecting text.
Letters – Chassidut
Letters – Chassidut