(Szerdahely Rov, 1895-1944). Autograph Postcard Signed, stamped and written in Hebrew to R. Menachem Mendel Kasher of Jerusalem.

WEINBERGER, HILLEL

1st November

Dunajská Streda (Dunaszerdahely / Niedermarkt), Slovakia

1932

States that he has seen R. Kasher’s work “Torah Sheleimah” at the home of the Rov of Munkatch and requests that further volumes been sent him upon publication.

Succeeded his father R. Shmuel Levi Weinberger (1860-1925) as Av Beth Din, who was the son-in-law of R. Hillel Lichtenstein of Kolomyia (1814-91). It was here, in Dunaszerdahely, that the great Posek R. Yehuda Aszod presided. The town changed sovereignty from Hungary to Czechoslovakia after WWI. It is of note that R. Kasher’s works would be admired in Munkatch, a bastion of ultra-Orthodox thinking.