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Auction 43 · Lot 293
SCHNEERSON, MENACHEM MENDEL.
- Estimate
- $500–$700
- Hammer price
- $850
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Brooklyn, New York
Publication
1959, 1960 and 1961
Description
Three Typed Letters Signed in English by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson to Mr. Harry A. Goodman, Agudath Israel leader, London, concerning efforts to seek release of Rabbi Eliezer Zushye Portugal (Skulener Rebbe) and his son from incaceration in Romania
summary
Concerns the clandestine efforts by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to seek the release from imprisonment of the Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Eliezer Zushye Portugal (1898-1982), who, along with his son, had been arrested for Jewish activities by the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania. Upon his eventual release Rabbi Portugal settled in the Crown Heights section of Brookyn and is fondly remembered for the stirring Chassidic nigunim (chassidic melodies) he composed. He is buried in the Vizhnitz cemetery in Monsey, New York .
Harry A. Goodman, British Secretary of the Agudath Israel World Organization, was active in Hatzalah work and a deeply committed communal leader. See EJ, Vol. II, col. 423
Each letter, one page
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