(Rabbi of Chust and of the Eidah HaChareidith, Jerusalem. 1868-1948). Autograph Letter Signed. Written on letterhead in Hebrew to R. Avraham Wilhelm of Jerusalem.

DUSCHINSKY, YOSEPH TZVI

12th Shevat

Jerusalem

1938

Letter of approval for R. Wilhelm’s work on the laws of salting meat; offering much praise of the author’s scholarship and personality.

A disciple of R. Simcha Bunim Sofer (Shevet Sofer) in Pressburg, R. Yoseph Tzvi Duschinsky served in Galanta and later in Chust where he established a popular Yeshiva. Known as the Chuster Rov, in 1933 he succeeded R. Yoseph Chaim Sonnenfeld as the leader of the Eidah HaChareidith. The work of Rabbi Wilhelm was eventually published under the title Halachah Berurah (Jerusalem, 1965).