Pinkas Ezrath Torah. Hebrew manuscript volume. Ledger of this philanthropic organization containing names of contributors from throughout the United States, with detailed lists of the disbursement of funds to scholars and needy Jews the world over

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

New York

1941-42

Hebrew Manuscript on paper. Approx. 500 pages, in various hands. Few pages in English

A vital original source of documentation, disclosing the channels by which American Jews raised, received and subsequently dispersed charitable funds across the world. A selection of names from whom charitable funds were received or transferred to: R. Rokeach, Rebbe of Belz; R. Twersky, Rebbe of Skver; R. Hager, Rebbe of Vishnitz; R. Halberstam, Rebbe of Bobov; R. Alter, Rebbe of Gur; R. Friedman, Rebbe of Sadigora; R. Heschel, Rebbe of Kopitchnitz; R. Levi Isaac Greenwald of Tzelem; R. Amram Greenwald of Chust; R. Menachem Ziemba and R. Abraham Weinberg of Warsaw; R. Abraham Joffen of Novhardok; R. Isser Zalman Meltzer; R. Aaron Kotler; R. Tzvi Pesach Frank; R. Shlomo Heiman; R. Abraham Kalmanowitz; R. David Leibowitz; R. Isaac Ze'ev Soloveitchik of Brisk; R. Moshe Feinstein; R. Abraham Isaiah Karelitz (Chazon Ish); R. Weidenfeld of Tchebin; R. S.Z. Schneerson of Paris; R. Chaim Heller; R. Reuben Grozovsky; R. Elijah Eliezer Dessler; R. Mordechai Pogromansky; R. Moshe Mordechai Shkop; R. Simcha Wasserman; Rabbi Dr. Samuel Belkin; R. Baruch Sorotzkin of Telz; the family of R. Israel Meir Kagan of Radin (Chafetz Chaim); students and administrators of th Mir Yeshiva and Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin; and refugee scholars and families in China, Japan, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Siberia, Bukhara, Eretz Israel, and Canada. An important archive of information from this tragic period for the Jewish People.