(WOMEN).

AUCTION 47 |
Thursday, December 10th,
2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 295
(WOMEN).
1866-ca.1930
Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $300
These letters are indicative of the social milieu and the sad state of affairs when agunoth (literally "chained women") had to actively search for the whereabouts of their missing husbands.
Samuel Mohilever (1824-1898), one of the founders of Religious Zionism, was an outstanding student of the Volozhin Yeshiva and considered one of the great rabbinic leaders of Russia. He was appointed Rabbi of Suvalk in 1860, later serving in Bialystok. See EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 217-219; Leo Jung (ed.), Men of the Spirit (1964), pp. 415-36