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Auction 39 · Lot 344

PERLOW, SHALOM ALTER.

Estimate
$400–$600
Hammer price
$300

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

Place

Baranovitch

Publication

“Chaim Osher VeKavod” (i.e. 1928)

Description

(The Koidanover Rebbe. 1904-1943). Autograph Letter Signed (also signed by his mother, Rivka Henya Perlow). Addressed to a Chassid residing in America and discusses the writer’s impending marriage to the daughter of a chassidic Rebbe in Lodz as well as the marital prospects of his sister. Contains details concerning the economic hardships experienced in Poland and encourages the recipient to arrange for a monthly stipend to be sent to Baranovitch from Koidanover Chassidim in America

summary

See Baranovitch Sepher Zikaron, p. 248; Eileh Ezkerah, Vol. 5, pp. 239-43; H. Rabinowicz, Encyclopedia of Chassidism, p. 366; W. Z. Rabinowitsch, Lithuanian Hasidism, pp. 161-69
On letterhead of the writer’s father, Nechemia ben R. Aaron Perlow of Koidanov-Baranovitch
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