(GORDIN, YEHUDAH LEIB).
AUCTION 68 |
Thursday, April 07th,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art
Lot 183
(GORDIN, YEHUDAH LEIB).
Lomza & Chicago: v.d
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $4,250
Aside from his renown as a dramatic orator, R. Yehuda Leib Gordin (“The Lomza Gaon,” 1854-1925) was acclaimed as one of the outstanding Poskim of Poland. He was very supportive of the famed Yeshiva in Lomza and was sent by the Rosh Yeshiva, R. Yechiel Mordechai Gordon, to America to raise urgently needed funds. There, the Jews of Chicago were so enthralled by his dynamic personality and scholarship they immediately offered him a pulpit position and the presidency of the Chicago Orthodox Rabbinical Association.
See E. Katzman, HaGaon R. Yehuda Leib Gordin… HaGaon MeLomza in: Yeshurun Vol. III (1997) pp. 649-78.