Maran HaGa’on HaTzadik R. Abraham Mordechai Alter

(CHASSIDISM)

Merkaz Agudath Israel of Eretz Israel

Tel Aviv

June 17th, 1948

Single-leaf broadside. Special issue upon the death of Grand Rabbi of Ger. The broadside notes that due to difficulties communicating with Jerusalem, further details concerning the final hours of the Rebbe and his funeral are presently unknown

Abraham Mordechai Alter (1866-1948) was the spiritual leader of the Agudath Israel movement and Grand Rabbi of an estimated 100,00 chassidim in pre-war Poland. He succeeded his father R. Judah Aryeh Leib (author of Sephath Emeth) as Rebbe in 1905. Due to Jordanian occupation, it was impossible to bury the Rebbe on the Mount of Olives, thus he was temporarily interred in the courtyard of his Yeshiva, Sephath Emeth in Jerusalem.