HALBERSTAM, SOLOMON OF BOBOV.
AUCTION 44 |
Thursday, June 25th,
2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 302
HALBERSTAM, SOLOMON OF BOBOV.
1953-1976
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $10,000
Rabbi Solomon Halberstam writes (1960) to the West Side philanthropist Yechiel Reinhold, noting that he read the kvittel (petition) on the yahrzeit of his martyred father (R. Benzion Halberstam). The Rebbe prays that his father's merit will protect all of his chassidim who were close to him throughout his lifetime.
Rabbi Benzion Halberstam was murdered by the Germans in Lemberg on 4th Av, 1941. His son Solomon, lost his wife and two children in the Holocaust. Solomon and his son Naftali Tzvi, escaped from Galicia to Hungary and later to Romania. After the war, Rabbi Solomon settled in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn and in 1967, moved his "court" to Borough Park, which remains the center of Bobov Chassidism to this day.
Rabbi Benzion's paternal grandmother Beila was the daughter of Rabbi Eliezer of Dzhikov. Benzion's father Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam I (1847-1905), orphaned from youth, was raised by his maternal grandfather, the Rebbe of Dzhikov.
See Tz.M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996), pp. 172, 176-177