(SCHNEERSON, JOSEPH ISAAC).

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

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

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Lot 266

(SCHNEERSON, JOSEPH ISAAC).

(1880-1950. Sixth Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch). Autograph Letter Signed by M. Rodstein, Secretary of the Lubavitch Yeshivah, on letterhead of “Yeshivath Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, Warsaw,” addressed to “M. Mordecai ben Saul Wilsker,” acknowledging donation of $100 to the Yeshivah

Warsaw: 3rd Tammuz 1927

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $400

The final paragraph informs the recipient that the Rebbe, Joseph Isaac Schneerson, was imprisoned in St. Petersburg by the Bolsheviks. Parenthetically, nine days later, on the 12th of Tammuz, Rabbi Schneerson was released from St. Petersburg’s infamous Spalerna Prison after intense pressure placed on the Soviet Government by senior officials world-wide. 67 years after this letter was written (the 3rd Tammuz), R. Joseph Isaac’s succesor, R. Menachem Mendel, passed away