HILDESHEIMER, MEIR AND AZRIEL)

AUCTION 35 | Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 at 1:00

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Lot 245

HILDESHEIMER, MEIR AND AZRIEL)

Five Autograph Letters Signed by Azriel Hildesheimer. * One Typed Letter Signed by his father, R. Meir Hildesheimer. * And one Autograph Letter Signed by S.C. Kook requesting Azriel Hildesheimer to ask Saul Lieberman for his opinion of Kook’s commentary to Talmud Yerushalmi

Jerusalem-Tel Aviv: 1934-40

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,600

Correspondence between R. Meir Hildesheimer, Principal of the Hildesheimer Seminary, his son Azriel Hildesheimer and Saul Kook concerning relocating the Seminary to Eretz Israel from Berlin. This notion engendered much opposition in Agudah circles, R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky for one, was vehemently opposed to the idea. From this correspondence it is evident that Hildesheimer wished to alter the format of the curriculum in order to adapt it to the conditions in Eretz Israel. One letter, written on the ship S.S. Polonia of the Polish Palestine Line, contains a moving account of the final days and the death of R. Meir Hildesheimer.