(Rosh Yeshiva and Rabbi of Slobodka and Hebron, 1866-1933). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Yiddish to the philanthropists Chaim Shimon Gedaliah and Necha Golding, on yeshiva letterhead.

EPSTEIN, MOSHE MORDECHAI.

23rd Teveth

Jerusalem

1930

Written a few short months following the Hebron Massacre, informing the Goldings they have been recorded in the Yeshiva “Golden Book” which was one of the few items that survived the destruction of the yeshiva building; and thanking them for their support and sending blessings to their family.

Brother-in-law of R. Isser Zalman Meltzer, R. Moshe Mordechai Epstein was one of the outstanding Roshei Yeshivas of Lithuania. His novellae, responsa and lectures are recorded in the multi-volume “Levush Mordechai.” Shortly before R. Moshe Mordechai opened a branch of the Slabodka Yeshiva in Hebron, he travelled to the United States on a fund-raising mission, it was there he became closely connected to the Golding Family of New York.