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Large group of c. 220 Autograph Letters Signed, all written in Hebrew, by scores of Rabbis serving pulpits throughout North America;

Auction 80 · Lot 150

Large group of c. 220 Autograph Letters Signed, all written in Hebrew, by scores of Rabbis serving pulpits throughout North America;

Estimate
$4,000–$6,000
Hammer price
$3,500

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

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Place

V.p

Publication

20th-century

Description

most all sent to R. Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879-1966) the renowned Kovno-born Torah scholar and Rabbi of the West End (Soho) Synagogue, London. Rabbinic, scholarly and pastoral matters, many letters concern Ferber’s publications.

summary

Abbreviated list of correspondents (pulpit locations in parenthesis): Abrahamowitz, Nathan (Queens, NY). Astrachan, J. D. (Chicago). Berger, Chaim Y. (Cleveland). Berson, M. (Chelsea, MA). Bialik, Chaim (Brooklyn). Braver, M. I. (Sioux City). Buchler, Abraham (South Hempstead, NY). Cahan, Boaz (Chicago). Charney, Aharon Reuven (Bayonne, NJ). Cohen, Liber (Bronx). Colomby, Avraham (Toronto). Deutsch, C. Y. (Helmetz, Brooklyn). Drazin, Nachum (Baltimore). Eichenstein, Abraham (Chicago). Eisenstadt, Ben Tzion (Brooklyn). Epstein, Chaim Fishel (Brooklyn). Epstein, Moshe Yechiel (Ozherov, Bronx). Frankel, Menachem M. (New York). Friedlander, Elazar (Baltimore). Friedman, Chaim Alter (New York). Geffen, Tuvia (Atlanta). Ginzberg, Chaim M. (Minneapolis). Gurary, Mordechai (Brooklyn). Guterman, Elchanan Tzvi (Scranton). Halberstam, Mendel (Gorlitz, New York). Halpern, E. Z. (Denver). Herschorn, Yehoshua (Montreal). Hirschprung, Pinchas (Montreal). Hurvitz, Yoseph Dov (St. Paul, MN). Inselbuch, E. (Brooklyn). Joskowicz, Yaakov Tzvi (Lodz). Kahan, Avraham (Far Rockaway). Kaplan, A. L. (Chicago). Kasher, Menachem (New York). Klein, Hillel (New York). Kohut, Sandor, (Nagyvaradon). Konvitz, Yoseph (Newark). Kotler, Shlomo Nathan (Detroit). Krevsky, S. (Allentown, PA). Kuselewitz, Shmuel (Bronx). Levine, Lipman (Brooklyn). Levine, Shlomo Yitzchak (Minneapolis). Levovitz, Reuven (Brooklyn). Mallach, Ephraim (Chicago). Marcus, Yoseph Yaakov (Baltimore). Margolies, Moshe Zevulun (New York). Margolis, Gavriel Zev (New York). Mashbaum, Moshe (Brooklyn). Paley, Ozer (Cleveland). Paltrowitz, Simcha (New York). Pardes, Shmuel Aharon (Bendin, Chicago). Pearlmutter, Yaakov (Baltimore). Preil, Elazar Meir (Elizabeth, NJ). Regensberg, E. A. (Chicago). Reznick, Abraham (Rochester). Riff, Naphtali Tzvi Yehuda (Camden, NJ). Rokach, Meir (Kozlov, New York). Rosen, Chaim (Brooklyn). Rosenberg, Michael (Brantford). Schechter, Abraham I. (Providence). Scheinfeld, S. J. (Milwaukee). Schneiderman, Shalom Tzvi (Philadelphia). Schwartz, Mordechai Tzvi (Cleveland). Seltzer, Shlomo (Dorchester, MA). Shapiro, Nachum (Stamford). Shimoff, Ephraim (Astoria, NY). Shuchatowitz, A. J. (Bronx). Silverman, Mordechai Meir (Pinsk, Brooklyn). Silverstein, Avrahm Shmuel (Toronto). Silverstone, Gedalia (Washington). Singer, David (Newark). Small, Yitzhak I. (Chicago). Teitz, Pinchas M. (Elizabeth, NJ). Thumim, Yoseph (Detroit). Tzvi Orliansky, (Bronx). Weisblum, Eliezer Lipa (New York). Weitzman, B. D. (Boslov, Brooklyn). Weller, A. L. (Newark). Werne, Yitzchak (Columbus). Yair, Tzvi (Steinmetz), New York). Yolles, Ephraim E. (Philadelphia). Zambrowsky, Yehoshua (Syracuse).
Abbreviated list of correspondents available upon request.
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