(Rosh Yeshiva in Verbau, Av Beth Din in Ungvar, 1814-86). Autograph Letter Signed and stamped on plain paper, written in Hebrew to Rabbi Yechezkel Banet.

MANNHEIMER, CHAIM TZVI HIRSCH

Sunday of Parshath Emor

Ungvar

1885

Letter of recommendation for R. Yechezkel Banet in order to obtain a rabbinic position.

One of the great rabbis of Hungary, R. Chaim Tzvi Hirsch Mannheimer was, for his entire life, a devoted disciple of the Chasam Sofer. His chiddushim were published in Ein Habdolach (Brooklyn, 1944). R. Yechezkel Banet (1862-1913) was appointed rabbi of Seini (or, Leuchtenburg) in Romania. His father, whom Rabbi Mannheimer mentions in this letter, was R. Gershon Wolf Banet (1830-1910), who succeeded R. Mannheimer as the Av Beth Din of Ungvar. R. Yechezkel’s grandfather was R. Shlomo Ganzfried (1804-86), author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch.