(Rabbi of Chust and of the Eidah HaChareidith, Jerusalem. 1868-1948) Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew on personal letterhead written to Rabbi Leo Jung of Manhattan’s Jewish Center, addressed as: "my… disciple beloved of my soul.”

DUSCHINSKY, JOSEPH TZVI

12 Adar

Jerusalem

1939

Contains personal details concerning family matters, the welfare of the Yeshiva and world affairs. He states that despite the terrible events affecting the Jewish people, there has yet to arise an awakening to repentence, instead “a lethargic spirit of slumber remains upon us. God should have mercy and liberate us with an everlasting redemption.”

A disciple of R. Simcha Bunim Sofer (Shevet Sofer) in Pressburg, R. Joseph Tzvi Duschinsky served in Galanta and later in Chust where he established a popular Yeshiva. Known as the Chuster Rov, R. Joseph Tzvi Duschinsky succeeded R. Joseph Chaim Sonnenfeld in 1933 as the leader of the Eidah HaChareidith, Jerusalem's separatist Aschkenazic community established in 1920 as an alternative to the Chief Rabbinate of Rabbi Kook. Dr. Leo Jung (1892-1987) appointed Rabbi of the Jewish Center in Manhattan in 1922 was one of the foremost activist American Rabbis and a most eloquent spokesmen for Orthodoxy.