Seven broadsides announcing eulogies for rabbinic leaders

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Lot 140
(JERUSALEM)

Seven broadsides announcing eulogies for rabbinic leaders

Folio

Jerusalem: v.p 1931-1943

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
I. R. Benzion Yadler, famed Jerusalem maggid to eulogize two Russian rabbis, Tuviah Katzenelenbogen, rabbi of St. Petersburg, and Abraham Tiktinsky, one of the deans of Mir II. Rabbis Yosef Gershon Horvitz, Pinchas Epstein and David Halevi Jungreis to eulogize Rabbi Joseph Hayim Sonnenfeld on the anniversary of the death. III. The Yeshivah of Hebron (Jerusalem) announces of the death of R. Judah Leib Chasman (1867-1936), spiritual supervisor of the Yeshivah, former rabbi of Shtutzin, Lithuania, and author of “Or Yahel,” a classic of the Mussar (Ethicist) school. IV. Rabbis Joseph Tzvi Duschinsky, Pinchas Epstein and David Halevi Jungreis will eulogize the “genius of Rogatchov” Rabbi Joseph Rosen who passed away in Vienna and was buried in Dvinsk, Latvia. V. A joint memorial for the Elder-Statesman of the Lithuanian yeshivoth, R. Simeon Judah Hakohen Shkop (1860-1939) and the chasidic rebbe of Sokolov, R. Isaac Zelig Morgenstern, scion of the famed Kotzk dynasty (1864-1939). Both passed away in Cheshvan of that year. VI. Poignant announcement of a memorial for R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky of Vilna (1863-1940), the acknowledged leader of world Jewry, in the mournful month of Menachem Av. For many to this day, the death of R. Chaim Ozer is viewed as the symbolic death-knell for Lithuanian Jewry. VII. A joint memorial to take place in Yeshivath Me’ah She’arim for the recently departed European leaders, Rabbis Simeon Judah Hakohen Shkop, Baruch Dov Leibowitz, Dean of Kamenets (1864-1940), Isaac Zelig Morgenstern, and Tzevi Aryeh Frumer (?-1943), rabbi of Kozaglov, Poland and of Yeshivah Chachmei Lublin. To be followed by public prayer on behalf of beleaguered Polish Jewry. The list of speakers to include: Rabbis Tzvi Pesach Frank, Issar Zalman Meltzer, Jacob Moses Charlap, Jacob Kelmes and Joseph Gershon Horwitz