Large group of c. 220 Autograph Letters Signed, all written in Hebrew, by scores of Rabbis serving pulpits throughout North America;

AUCTION 80 | Thursday, March 28th, 2019 at 1:00 PM
The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 150
(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Large group of c. 220 Autograph Letters Signed, all written in Hebrew, by scores of Rabbis serving pulpits throughout North America;

most all sent to R. <<Tzvi Hirsch Ferber>> (1879-1966) the renowned Kovno-born Torah scholar and Rabbi of the West End (Soho) Synagogue, London. Rabbinic, scholarly and pastoral matters, many letters concern Ferber’s publications. Abbreviated list of correspondents available upon request.

V.p: 20th-century

Est: $4,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $3,500
Abbreviated list of correspondents (pulpit locations in parenthesis): Abrahamowitz, Nathan (Queens, NY). Astrachan, J. D. (Chicago). Berger, Chaim Y. (Cleveland). Berson, M. (Chelsea, MA). Bialik, Chaim (Brooklyn). Braver, M. I. (Sioux City). Buchler, Abraham (South Hempstead, NY). Cahan, Boaz (Chicago). Charney, Aharon Reuven (Bayonne, NJ). Cohen, Liber (Bronx). Colomby, Avraham (Toronto). Deutsch, C. Y. (Helmetz, Brooklyn). Drazin, Nachum (Baltimore). Eichenstein, Abraham (Chicago). Eisenstadt, Ben Tzion (Brooklyn). Epstein, Chaim Fishel (Brooklyn). Epstein, Moshe Yechiel (Ozherov, Bronx). Frankel, Menachem M. (New York). Friedlander, Elazar (Baltimore). Friedman, Chaim Alter (New York). Geffen, Tuvia (Atlanta). Ginzberg, Chaim M. (Minneapolis). Gurary, Mordechai (Brooklyn). Guterman, Elchanan Tzvi (Scranton). Halberstam, Mendel (Gorlitz, New York). Halpern, E. Z. (Denver). Herschorn, Yehoshua (Montreal). Hirschprung, Pinchas (Montreal). Hurvitz, Yoseph Dov (St. Paul, MN). Inselbuch, E. (Brooklyn). Joskowicz, Yaakov Tzvi (Lodz). Kahan, Avraham (Far Rockaway). Kaplan, A. L. (Chicago). Kasher, Menachem (New York). Klein, Hillel (New York). Kohut, Sandor, (Nagyvaradon). Konvitz, Yoseph (Newark). Kotler, Shlomo Nathan (Detroit). Krevsky, S. (Allentown, PA). Kuselewitz, Shmuel (Bronx). Levine, Lipman (Brooklyn). Levine, Shlomo Yitzchak (Minneapolis). Levovitz, Reuven (Brooklyn). Mallach, Ephraim (Chicago). Marcus, Yoseph Yaakov (Baltimore). Margolies, Moshe Zevulun (New York). Margolis, Gavriel Zev (New York). Mashbaum, Moshe (Brooklyn). Paley, Ozer (Cleveland). Paltrowitz, Simcha (New York). Pardes, Shmuel Aharon (Bendin, Chicago). Pearlmutter, Yaakov (Baltimore). Preil, Elazar Meir (Elizabeth, NJ). Regensberg, E. A. (Chicago). Reznick, Abraham (Rochester). Riff, Naphtali Tzvi Yehuda (Camden, NJ). Rokach, Meir (Kozlov, New York). Rosen, Chaim (Brooklyn). Rosenberg, Michael (Brantford). Schechter, Abraham I. (Providence). Scheinfeld, S. J. (Milwaukee). Schneiderman, Shalom Tzvi (Philadelphia). Schwartz, Mordechai Tzvi (Cleveland). Seltzer, Shlomo (Dorchester, MA). Shapiro, Nachum (Stamford). Shimoff, Ephraim (Astoria, NY). Shuchatowitz, A. J. (Bronx). Silverman, Mordechai Meir (Pinsk, Brooklyn). Silverstein, Avrahm Shmuel (Toronto). Silverstone, Gedalia (Washington). Singer, David (Newark). Small, Yitzhak I. (Chicago). Teitz, Pinchas M. (Elizabeth, NJ). Thumim, Yoseph (Detroit). Tzvi Orliansky, (Bronx). Weisblum, Eliezer Lipa (New York). Weitzman, B. D. (Boslov, Brooklyn). Weller, A. L. (Newark). Werne, Yitzchak (Columbus). Yair, Tzvi (Steinmetz), New York). Yolles, Ephraim E. (Philadelphia). Zambrowsky, Yehoshua (Syracuse).