Autograph Letter Signed to a Chassid residing in Paris: “I was happy to receive your letter...I am resting from my work in this village. My honorable, holy brother (The Gerrer Rebbe) is also here and I have spoken to him concernining your needs...”

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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ALTER, MENACHEM MENDEL OF PABJANICE.

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Erev Shabbath Kodesh Devarim

Place

(Poland)

Publication

1936

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Known affectionately as R. Mendel Pavyanitzer, together with his brother Abraham Mordechai Alter - The Grand Rabbi of Ger, he played a heoric role in seeking to provide for the needs of Polish Jewry between the wars. He was deported to Treblinka where he was murderd in 1942. See Y. Alfasi, Ha-Chassiduth, p. 200

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