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Auction 33 · Lot 176
(CHASSIDISM)
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Warsaw
Publication
3rd Tammuz, 1927
Description
(Schneerson, Joseph Isaac). Autograph Letter Signed by M. Rodstein, Secretary of the Lubavitch Yeshivah, on letterhead of “Yeshivath Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, Warsaw,” addressed to “M. Mordecai ben Saul Wilsker,” acknowledging donation of $100 to the Yeshivah.
summary
The final paragraph informs the recipient that the Rebbe, Joseph Isaac Schneerson, was imprisoned in St. Petersburg by the Bolsheviks.
Parenthetically, nine days later, on the 12th of Tammuz, Rabbi Schneerson was released from St. Petersburg’s infamous Spalerna Prison after intense pressure placed on the Soviet Government by senior officials world-wide.
Creased; minor stains
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