(AUSTRALIA)

v.p.

19th & 20th centuries

A collection of letters and documents. Including: Material concerning Divorce Papers (“Get”) despatched from Lutimirsk, Poland to Sydney, Australia in 1899. * A lengthy responsum by Gabriel Ze’ev Aselka of Kreshiv to Israel Isser Bramson, the Rabbi of Sydney, Australia concerning a divorce and an halachic novellae concerning Purim. The Rabbi of Sydney was apparently a kabbalistic scholar, for references are made to previous correspondence concerning mystical matters, also inquires of the religious, economic and social life of Jews in Australia. * Bramson, Israel Issar. Rabbi of Sydney, Austrailia. Dath Ve’dath [commentary to the Pentateuch]. Autograph Hebrew manuscript, in three volumes. c. 1921. (With a copy of ordination letter by R. Isaac Elchonon Spektor, dated 1886, as approbation).