Letter Signed to R. Joseph Lipman Gurewitz of Melbourne on letterhead stationery of “Talmud Tora,” Lomzha, offering thanks for a donation to the Yeshiva

R. Moses Shatzkes, one of the leaders of pre-War Polish-Lithuanian Jewry, was Rabbi of Lomzha. He was the step-son of R. Isaac Blaser of St. Petersburg, the foremost disciple of R. Israel Salanter, and wrote annotations to Blaser’s halachic work, Peri Yitzchak. Forced to flee Europe at the onset of World War II, Rabbi Shatzkes accepted a post at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University, New York