A large collection of letters by rabbis, Admorim, and community leaders, Europe and Eretz Israel, the 1940s and 1950s

A large collection of letters by rabbis, Admorim, and community leaders, Europe and Eretz Israel, the 1940s and 1950s

An inportant collection of about 70 letters of rabbis from Europe and Eretz Israel, 1940s and 1950s. The letters are addressed to Rabbi Shmuel Shdrowitzky, the son of Rabbi Meir Shalom of Bialystok, And they cover a wide range of topics, Among other things the arrangement of spiritual matters in the Jewish Diaspora and in Eretz Israel after the Holocaust, including letters from Community rabbis, heads of Yeshivot and Admorim.

Among the letters: two letters by Rabbi Joseph Epstein - France, 1947, two letters by Rabbi Yechiel Stern - Montreal, 1947, an important letter in the handwriting and signature of Rabbi Yitzchak Tzvi Szymatisky - head of Torat Emet Yeshiva about an attempt to rescue students who remained in Morocco 1951, A letter by Rabbi Yehuda Meir Avramowitz, letter by Rabbi Elazar son of Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Shov of Kopkavan, Letter by Rabbi Avraham Sakel of Australia, Rabbi Aharon Shochatovitch, , letter by Rabbi Yisrael Weissburg of Ohio, Rabbi Shlomo Ehrman of Zurich, Rabbi Mordechai Zalman of Breiten - 1948, Two letters by Rabbi Zvi Pinchas Moskowitz, two letters by Rabbi Mordechai Hornstein,Letter signed by Rabbis of Badatz Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak Reizenman and Rabbi David Feinstein, letter by Rabbi Moshe Brock, Rabbi Moshe Rabinowitz of Breslev, Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin, Rabbi Pinchas Mendelsohn, Rabbi Chanoch Henich, Rabbi Meir Halberstam, Rabbi Kalman Eliezer Frankel, Rabbi Meir Schwarzman , A will in the handwriting and signature of Rabbi Y. D. rozsaynski, letter written by Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak HaCohen Plunzak, Av Beit Din of Mishnitz, the Admor of Shinawa, Rabbi Moshe Bernstein, letter signed by Rabbi Yitzchak Ya'akov vochtfogel, Rabbi Yehoshua Dov Groditzki, Rabbi Shmuel Kipnis, Rabbi Yisrael Isser Shapira, Rabbi Elazar Yaakov Friedman, Rabbi Ya'akov Rosenheim, Rabbi Elyakim son of Noach HaCohen, two letters by Rabbi Avraham Hillel Goldberg, Rabbi Dov Zochoviski, Rabbi Gershon Chanoch Fishman, Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak HaCohen Plunzak, Rabbi Yehuda Yitzchak Frenkel son of the Admor Rabbi Ya'akov Dov Kantor, Rabbi Asher Kershtein, Rabbi Shlomo Noach Karol, Rabbi Benzion Tzvik, Rabbi Ze'ev Aryeh Rabiner, Rabbi Ya'akov Tepper, Rabbi Avraham Englard, Rabbi Yehuda fankel from Tel Aviv, Rabbi Aharon Weinstein, Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Silverberg, Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Silberberg, Rabbi David Yechiel Rapport, Rabbi Aharon Reuven Charney and more and others.

The collection has not been thoroughly examined.

The recipient of the letters Rabbi Shmuel Shdrowitzky (1907-1978), son of Rabbi Meir Shalom of Bialystok and son-in-law of Rabbi Pinchas Iscar of Pintszew and Sosnowiec. Rabbi and admor of Bialystok, active in "Agudat Yisrael" in Poland and one of the faithful of the home of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzansky, Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Chairman of Agudath Israel in Tel Aviv. During the Holocaust he was sent to the Far East on rescue missions, on behalf of Agudath Israel and the Association of Polish Rabbis, to deal with the refugees in the Far East, Siberia and throughout Russia. Served as representative of the Jewish Agency and the Polish government-in-exile. In later years he also dealt extensively with matters of education and charity, and headed the secret activity of Agudath Israel to send aid to Russian Jews under the Iron Curtain.

General condition: good - very good.