(The Ponevezher Rav, 1886–1969). Autograph Letter Signed, written on letterhead in Hebrew to Rabbi J. Saden of Brooklyn.

KAHANEMAN, YOSEPH SHLOMO.

3rd Adar

Ponevitch

1936

Informing the recipient that two prominent Rabbis from Ponovitch are preparing to travel to New York on a fund-raising mission on behalf of the Yeshiva and Rabbi Sadan is requested to assist their efforts. * With: Autograph letterhead envelope.

Established by R. Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman in 1919, Ponevezh Yeshiva became famed as a Torah study center and stronghold of Orthodox Jewry in Lithuania. Although the majority of its student body perished in the Holocaust, Rav Kahaneman re-established the yeshiva in Israel where it is the pride of Bnei Braq.