(Leading Posek, 1877-1958). Autograph Letter Signed, on letterhead, written in Hebrew to Rabbi Ya’akov Pollak.

STEIF, YONASSON.

1st Ellul

Brooklyn

1955

Approving the plans of the grandson of Rabbi Ya’akov Chaim Fleischmann (1830-1908), to publish the latter’s writings.

Rabbi Steif was a Dayan of Budapest before the Holocaust years. He was rescued to Switzerland in 1944 by means of the famous Kastner train. After the war he settled in Williamsburg, where he headed Kahal Adas Yereim (Vien). He was a leading, indeed the senior, Posek in the United States.