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(Chassidic Rebbe of Zmigrod, 1870-1941). Letter Signed (with final eight lines autograph), in Hebrew on letterhead, written to Yisroel Menachem Horowitz of Mainz.

Auction 61 · Lot 267

(Chassidic Rebbe of Zmigrod, 1870-1941). Letter Signed (with final eight lines autograph), in Hebrew on letterhead, written to Yisroel Menachem Horowitz of Mainz.

Estimate
$3,000–$4,000
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

HALBERSTAM, SINAI.

printer

2nd March

Place

Zmigrod

Publication

1926

Description

Thanks for donation and offering good wishes for the recipient’s pregnant wife and profuse good wishes for his other children and their futures, “everything should be turned around for the good.”

summary

Son of R. Baruch of Gorelitz and grandson of R. Chaim Halberstam of Sanz. Upon the outbreak of the war, he escaped to Lemberg but was ultimately deported to Siberia where he perished in the forests of Omsk. See Y. Alfasi, Traklinei HaChassiduth p. 757.
Two pages. With original postmarked envelope.
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