Collection of twenty two Rabbinic and Chassidic letters from members of the Lodz Rabbinate

(LODZ)

Lodz

1916-1939

Autograph Letters Signed, many on headed paper, in various hands

As the largest industrial city in Poland, Lodz had over fifty Dayanim (judges). These letters reflect the legaal, social and economic range of matters set before them: Requests for employment. * Marital and divorce cases. * A request for a Din Torah litigation concerning the dismissal of daughter-in-law of Rabbi Yitzchak Frank of Kutna and a letter signed by the widow of Rabbi Abraham Shlomo Morgenstern. Correspondents include the following Chassidic Rabbis: R. Yosef Baruch Gottschall (grandson of the rebbe of Radeshitz). * R. Shmuel Pinchas Shapiro of Blendshov (grandson of Koznitz). * R. Alter Yitzchak Meir Horowitz of Pokshevnitza. * R. Yosef Meir Meisels (grandson of Apter Rav). * R. Chaim Pinchos Luria, author of Petach Hadaat and Meishiv Halach requests a holiday stipend so that "his wife and children should not have to fast."