(“Chaim Brisker”). Letter Signed, to the Orientalist, Abraham Elijah Harkavy, thanking him for his support of the Yeshiva Torath Chaim in Jerusalem

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 380
SOLOVEICHIK, CHAIM OF BRISK

(“Chaim Brisker”). Letter Signed, to the Orientalist, Abraham Elijah Harkavy, thanking him for his support of the Yeshiva Torath Chaim in Jerusalem

In Hebrew. On headed paper, with personal stamp and stamp of the Yeshiva Single leaf, central folds. 4to

Brisk, Lithuania: 8th Cheshvan, 1911

Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $1,500
Interestingly, Harkavy is entitled the “esteemed Rabbi” rather than Professor. Likely attributable to his attendance in his youth of the Yeshiva of Volozhin, before embarking on a distinguished secular academic career