(Of Ropshitz / Kerestir, 1899-1944). Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew on postcard with letterhead, to Rabbi Avraham Frankel.

RUBIN, MEIR YOSEF

12th Tamuz

Kerestir (Bodrogkeresztúr)

(c. 1935)

Concerning his mother, Rebbetzin Sorah Shlomtza Rubin, who had emigrated to Eretz Israel.

R. Meir Yosef Rubin was the son of R. Baruch Rubin (the She'eris Baruch, 1864-1936) who was the rabbi of Glogau and Admor of Dombrovo. R. Meir Yosef’s father-in-law was R. Avraham Steiner (1883-1927) Admor of Kerestir, and a brother-in-law of the celebrated R. Yeshaya Steiner, who succeeded his father as Kerestirer Rebbe. R. Meir Yosef’s brother was R. Ya’akov Yisroel veYeshurun Rubin (1885-1944), The Sulitza-Sasregen Rebbe. Budapest Rabbi Avraham Frankel (1860-1937) was a disciple of the Shevet Sofer, president of the Kollel Shomrei Hachomoth in Jerusalem and a member of the Hungarian Parliament.