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AUCTION 37 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 254

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Correspondence of Elijah Inselbuch, Rabbi, Beth Midrash Hagadol, Brooklyn. Seven letters, including the following to Inselbuch: Rabbi Issar Zalman Meltzer on behalf of the Yeshivah of Slutzk, Autograph Letter Signed; Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook on behalf of Yeshivah Merkaz Harav, Jerusalem, Typed Letter Signed; Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum on behalf of Yeshivah R. Yitzchak Elchanan (Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary), NY Typed Letter Signed; and a rather curious pseudonymous letter from fellow student “Shem ben Shem mi-Volozhin,” which seems to relate to the activities of Nes Tziyonah, the Zionist secret society in the Volozhin Yeshivah

Late 19th-Early 20th centuries

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $650

Rabbi Inselbuch, a graduate of the Volozhin Yeshivah, who served in the rabbinate in Oshmina, Russia, and later in Schenectady and Brooklyn, NY, was very active in the early Religious Zionist movement in Russia and the United States. Inselbuch was the father-in-law of Aaron David Burack, a Rosh Yeshivah at Yeshiva University. See S.M. Gottlieb, Ohalei Shem (1912), p. 310