(Grand Rebbe of Sighet, 1911-44). Autograph Letter Signed written on letterhead in Hebrew to Rabbi Alter Shaul Pfeffer.

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,600

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author

TEITELBAUM, YEKUSIEL YEHUDAH.

printer

Thursday, Parshath Tazria

Place

Sighet

Publication

1935

Description

Concerning attempts to locate a woman who had moved and can no longer be located.

summary

Son of R. Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum (the Atzei Chaim) R. Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum succeeded his father as Admor despite his young age of 14. His younger brother (the Beirach Moshe) survived the Holocaust and was the Sigheter Rebbe and later Satmar Rebbe in the United States. R. Yekusiel Yehudah perished in Auschwitz on the 25th of Iyar, 1944. Alter Shaul Pfeffer (1874-1936) was a Romanian rabbi who emigrated to New York. He published Avnei Zikaron in Sighet in 1923.

One page, 8vo.

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