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Auction 35 · Lot 245
HILDESHEIMER, MEIR AND AZRIEL)
- Estimate
- $1,500–$2,000
- Hammer price
- $2,600
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Jerusalem-Tel Aviv
Publication
1934-40
Description
Five Autograph Letters Signed by Azriel Hildesheimer. * One Typed Letter Signed by his father, R. Meir Hildesheimer. * And one Autograph Letter Signed by S.C. Kook requesting Azriel Hildesheimer to ask Saul Lieberman for his opinion of Kook’s commentary to Talmud Yerushalmi
summary
Correspondence between R. Meir Hildesheimer, Principal of the Hildesheimer Seminary, his son Azriel Hildesheimer and Saul Kook concerning relocating the Seminary to Eretz Israel from Berlin.
This notion engendered much opposition in Agudah circles, R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky for one, was vehemently opposed to the idea. From this correspondence it is evident that Hildesheimer wished to alter the format of the curriculum in order to adapt it to the conditions in Eretz Israel.
One letter, written on the ship S.S. Polonia of the Polish Palestine Line, contains a moving account of the final days and the death of R. Meir Hildesheimer.