(Dayan of Ujhely, 1864-1944). Autograph Letter Signed on plain paper and stamped, written in Hebrew to Rabbis Leo Jung and Avraham Tzvi Friedman.

DICK, TZVI HAKOHEN

Wednesday of Parshath Shemoth

Újhely (Sátoraljaújhely, Ihel, Hungary)

1939

To the directors of Chevras Tomchei Torah in New York, giving thanks and blessings for providing support for yeshivas, and financial security to Torah scholars.

Rabbi Dik, known as R. Hirsch Dayan, was the Posek of the Ashkenazi (that is, non-Chasidic) community of Ujhel. See Benjamin Eisenberg, The Life and Death of Rabbi Zvi Hacohen Dick, in: Vanished Communities in Hungary: The History and Tragic Fate of the Jews in Újhely and Zemplén County (ed. Meir Sas, Toronto, 1986), pp. 168-170. One quarter of Újhely's pre-war population was Jewish, which made it, next to Budapest, the most “Jewish city” in Hungary. The Yismach Moshe, R. Moshe Teitelbaum (1759-1841) was Rebbe of Ujhely, and is buried there. Also buried there is R. Aleksander Sender Eichenstein (1770-1818) of Kormarno.