HALBERSTAM, SOLOMON OF BOBOV.

1953-1976

Grand Rabbi of Bobov-Brooklyn. Group of 33 letters. Autograph and Secretarial Letters Signed, with a few lines added in autograph, several with autograph personalized envelopes. * With Autograph Letters Signed, by other members of the Halberstam Rabbinic dynasty: Benjamin Halberstam of Rudnik, Chaim Halberstam of Tchekhov, Shalom Yechezkel Shraga Rubin-Halberstam of Tzieshanov, et al. * Also, photograph of Rabbi Benzion Halberstam of Bobov (1874-1941) and two photographs of the Rebbes of Dzhikov

Rabbi Solomon Halberstam writes (1960) to the West Side philanthropist Yechiel Reinhold, noting that he read the kvittel (petition) on the yahrzeit of his martyred father (R. Benzion Halberstam). The Rebbe prays that his father's merit will protect all of his chassidim who were close to him throughout his lifetime. Rabbi Benzion Halberstam was murdered by the Germans in Lemberg on 4th Av, 1941. His son Solomon, lost his wife and two children in the Holocaust. Solomon and his son Naftali Tzvi, escaped from Galicia to Hungary and later to Romania. After the war, Rabbi Solomon settled in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn and in 1967, moved his "court" to Borough Park, which remains the center of Bobov Chassidism to this day. Rabbi Benzion's paternal grandmother Beila was the daughter of Rabbi Eliezer of Dzhikov. Benzion's father Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam I (1847-1905), orphaned from youth, was raised by his maternal grandfather, the Rebbe of Dzhikov. See Tz.M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996), pp. 172, 176-177