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Auction 27 · Lot 252

BLASER, ISAAC

Estimate
$800–$1,000
Hammer price
$850

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

8 Adar, 5666 [1906]

Description

Manuscript Letter Signed, in Hebrew. An appeal to Dov Baer and Nesha Manischewitz of Cincinnati, Ohio for funds on behalf of the of the “Central Committee of the United Jewish Population of the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, Tiberias.” Signed by Isaac Blaser, Zalman Hakohern Rubin, Gedaliah Nachman Broder, Asher Dov Sussman, Isaac Eliezer Harlap (with rabbinic stamps)

summary

Rabbi Isaac Blaser, formerly rabbi of St. Petersburg, Russia, was considered the spiritual heir of the saintly founder of the Mussar movement, Rabbi Israel Salanter (Lipkin). Blaser edited a volume of Salanter’s teachings, entitled ‘Or Yisrael, as well as producing a volume of his own halachic responsa, Peri Yitzchak
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