Important historical material concerning the Lomza Yeshiva in Poland. Contains 20 letters by a broad swath of English Rabbis and Ministers in support of the Yeshiva and praising the emissary Jacob Aryeh Davidson

LOMZA YESHIVA

v.p.

1890-1918

Autograph manuscripts on paper mostly in Hebrew Ashkenazic cursive script, few in English

With autographed letters signed by the following Rabbis: Eliezer Shulewitz, Abba Werner (London), Moses Gaster (London), Joel Herzog (Leeds), S. Daiches (Sunderland), M. Dagutsky (Manchester), H. Hurwitz (Sunderland), I.H. Daiches (Leeds), S.I. Hillman (Glasgow), J.S. Joffey (Manchester), M. Segal (Newcastle), J. Mendelson (Glasgow), S.I. Rabinowitz (Liverpool), M.J. Behrman (Middlesborough, S.P. Heilpern, (Gateshead), M. Yosselson (Dublin), J.D. Luria (Hull), Y.M. Sobelson (Gateshead), Avigdor Schonfeld and M. Jung. Also includes signatures and pledges of various donors. Includes a seldom seen broadside by the Chofetz Chaim (R. Yisroel Meir Hacohen of Radin) expressly for the Lomza Yeshiva. Providing a short history of the importance of Yeshivoth especially those of the Chatam Sofer, Akiva Eiger, the Yeshiva of R. Chaim of Volozhin, with particular praise for the founder of the Lomza Yeshiva, R. Eliezer Shulewitz (a disciple of R. Yisrael Salanter)