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Auction 39 · Lot 340

(Rabbi of Bialystok, founder of Chovevei Zion, 1824-1898). Autograph Letter Signed to Rabbi Chaim Joseph Jaffe, concerning Chovevei Zion activity, financial issues and matters concerning the activities of Chavkin in the Land of Israel

Estimate
$300–$500
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

MOHILEVER, SAMUEL.

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21st Mar-Cheshvan

Place

(Bialystok)

Publication

1891

summary

Mohilever was considered one of the great rabbis of Russia, being an active leader of Jewish affairs and an outstanding student of the Volozhin Yeshiva. See EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 217-219; Leo Jung (ed.), Men of the Spirit (1964), pp. 415-36
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