(Admor of Tshechov-Haifa, 1894-1984). Autograph Letter Signed (aerogramme), written in Hebrew to the Agudath HaRabonim of America and Canada.

KANNER, AVROHOM ABBISH

1st Adar

Haifa

1956

Concerning the Kashruth of various Passover products.

R. Avraham Abbish Kaner served as the second Grand-Rebbe of Czchow. He initially established his court in Jassy, Romania, and after surviving the Iasi pogrom of June, 1941 (which saw the massacre of a third of the city’s 40,000 Jews he found passage to Palestine. Detained aboard the ship Medinath HaYehudim, the British offered R. Kaner the option to reach the Holy Land unmolested, while all other voyagers would be sent to detention in Cyprus. The Rebbe declined the offer, refusing to abandon his fellow Jews. later, upon reaching Eretz Israel, the Rebbe settled in Haifa, where he led his Chechoyv court for the next four decades.