(Rabbi of Radomyshl, Bilgoraj and Dukla, 1853-1935). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew, also signed in German, written to the Community leadership of Lvov.

ENGEL, SHMUEL

Dukla

1884

An application for the position of community Rabbi. Provides much biographical information along with reasons he wishes to leave Poland. Includes names of other rabbis whom can act as references to attest to his fitness for the position. On verso: Letter of response in German. (Transcription and English translation accompanying the lot).

A leading Galician Torah scholar and foremost halachic authority of his generation, Rabbi Shmuel Engel was a close disciple of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz and of his son R. Yechezkel Halberstam of Shinova. During WWI, he moved to Waitzen (Vác, Hungary) and in 1918, settled in Kashoi (Košice), were he was appointed head of the Beth Din, remaining there until his passing. He authored the multi-volume Chiddushei Maharash.