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Auction 54 · Lot 285

(Sixth Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, 1880-1950). Typed Letter Signed in Hebrew on personal letterhead written to Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung of Manhattan’s Jewish Center.

Estimate
$600–$900
Hammer price
$600

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author

SCHNEERSON, JOSEPH ISAAC.

printer

12th Nissan

Place

Otwock

Publication

1937

Description

Concerning Taharath HaMishpacha (family-purity) campaign in Vienna.

summary

The Rebbe relates that upon visiting doctors in Vienna, he established a committee to strengthen the concepts of marital-purity and encouraged there the distribution of Rabbi Jung’s writings on the topic. He requests copies of these pamphlets be sent to Moritz Pappenheim, the address of whom is supplied here by hand.
Two pages on two leaves, pencil notations.
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