(1828-1917).  Autograph Letter Signed written on letterhead in Hebrew to Avraham Harkavy.

Affectionately known as R. Dovid Karliner, Rabbi David Friedman was regarded as one of the great Talmudic scholars of his time. He was rabbi of Karlin-Pinsk for half a century to where Jews would flock with halachic questions. In addition, he took an active role in communal affairs relating to Eretz Israel, accepting the appointment as secretary of Mazkeret Moshe, the fund named after Sir Moses Montefiore, for the development of settlement in the land. The Orientalist Abraham Harkavy (1835-1919) was a distinguished historian of Russian Jewry. An erstwhile student of the Volozhin Yeshiva, Rabbi Friedman addresses him here with respect and rabbinic honorifics.