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Auction 33 · Lot 169
(ANGLO-JUDAICA)
- Estimate
- $500–$700
- Hammer price
- $500
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
London
Publication
(August), 1945
Description
Typed Letter Signed, in Hebrew, by the Chassidic Rebbe of Radzhin, R. Yerucham Leiner. Written to the Agudath Ha-Rabanim of America commending them for excommunicating the heretic (Mordecai Kaplan) and alerting them to apparent heresies in the newly-published prayer-book edited by Chief Rabbi Dr. Hertz of England
summary
Rabbi Leiner (1888-1964) emigrated to London in 1934 and later setttled in New York in 1947