(Spiritual leader of Lithuanian Jewry, 1863-1940). Group of two letters.

GRODZENSKI, CHAIM OZER.

Vilna

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Autograph Letter Signed. Written to Rabbi Joseph Rosen, in Hebrew, on personal letterhead. A plea to assist the widow of R. Ben Zion Mitovsky of Lebedova who was brutally murdered during a pogrom in 1907. “Her daughter is engaged…do what you can to gladden the heart of a widow.” Suggests that Rabbi Rosen contact the former-residents of Slutsk now in New York to help, as the woman is a grand-daughter of R. Menachem Mendel of Slutsk. 8th Nisan, 1929. * AND: Secretarial Letter Signed. On stationery of Tzedaka Gedolah, Vilna. Written to the community of Swislocz concerning funds given to Rabbi Rosen to help rebuild the synagogue. Apologizes for not being able to provide more. 14th Kislev, 1911.

Rabbi Rosen married the daughter of Rabbi David Golub of Lebedova and knew the predicament of the widow and her family well. R. Ben Zion Mitovsky studied at Volozhin and was a colleague of Rabbi Rosen. R. Chaim Ozer helped the widow to publish her husband’s novellae entitled Bnei Zion (Vilna, 1908), with glowing approbations from the Rabbis of Kovno, Volozhin and R. Chaim Ozer himself.