(Grand Rebbe of Klausenberg-Sanz, 1904-94). Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead, to Rabbi Elazar Meisels.
Auction 92 |
Thursday, February 18th,
2021 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Lot 81
HALBERSTAM, YEKUTHIEL YEHUDAH
(Grand Rebbe of Klausenberg-Sanz, 1904-94). Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead, to Rabbi Elazar Meisels.
Netanya: 9th Kislev 1976
Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $1,200
Great-grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. Despite horrifying family losses in the Holocaust, the Rebbe became a source of spiritual and material succor for countless survivors, particularly orphans. Initially settling in Williamsburg after the war, in 1958 he moved to Israel where he founded Kiryat Sanz in Netanya. He was one of the great post-war Tzadikim who rebuilt a Chassidic world that had been almost entirely destroyed.
A son of R. Dovid Dov Meisels (1865-1944) of Ujhel, Hungary, R. Elazar Meisels was known as the Ujhely Rov. He died in 1995.