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Auction 37 · Lot 266
(SCHNEERSON, JOSEPH ISAAC).
- Estimate
- $500–$700
- Hammer price
- $400
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
printer
3rd Tammuz
Place
Warsaw
Publication
1927
Description
(1880-1950. Sixth Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch). Autograph Letter Signed by M. Rodstein, Secretary of the Lubavitch Yeshivah, on letterhead of “Yeshivath Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, Warsaw,” addressed to “M. Mordecai ben Saul Wilsker,” acknowledging donation of $100 to the Yeshivah
references
Creased; minor stains
summary
The final paragraph informs the recipient that the Rebbe, Joseph Isaac Schneerson, was imprisoned in St. Petersburg by the Bolsheviks. Parenthetically, nine days later, on the 12th of Tammuz, Rabbi Schneerson was released from St. Petersburg’s infamous Spalerna Prison after intense pressure placed on the Soviet Government by senior officials world-wide. 67 years after this letter was written (the 3rd Tammuz), R. Joseph Isaac’s succesor, R. Menachem Mendel, passed away