Miscellaneous American rabbinical correspondence documents, 1923-1978.
מסמכי רבניים-אמריקאיים

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Rosenblatt, Moses, approximately 1875-1948, author.

Shuchatowitz, Aaron, -1974, author.

Eisenbach, Avraham Abba, author.

Jaffe, Israel B., author.

Hershḳoṿiṭsh, Efrayim Fishl, 1922-2017, author.

Hoffman, Jacob, rabbi (Ohab Zedek Congregation, New York, New York), author.

Rose, Yehuda Leib, -1946, author.

Wiener, Moshe, author.

Moinester, Jacob L., author.

Porath, Israel, -1974, author.

Contributor:

United Gallil Aid Society, Inc., associated name.

Moshab Sekenim of Jerusalem, associated name.

First Hungarian Congregation Ohab Zedek (New York, N.Y.), associated name.

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Porath, Israel, -1974--Correspondence.

Porath, Israel.

Potashnik, Aharon--Correspondence.

Potashnik, Aharon.

Halberstam, Moshe, 1932-2006--Correspondence.

Halberstam, Moshe.

Singer, Edmund Ödön, 1916-2002--Correspondence.

Singer, Edmund Ödön.

Rabbis--Ohio--Cleveland--20th century--Correspondence.

Rabbis.

Rabbis--Connecticut--New Haven--20th century--Correspondence.

Rabbis--Jerusalem--20th century--Correspondence.

Jews--New York (State)--New York--20th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

Genre:

correspondence artifacts.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Refaeli Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 21 (March 14, 2021) lot 281.

Physical Description:

11 leaves : paper ; 300 x 210 mm.

Place of Publication:

1923-1978.

Language Note:

Mostly in Hebrew; 583b has a line of English.

Biography/History:

Moses Rosenblatt, rabbi of Congregation Beth Joseph and Talmud Torah, Bronx, New York; Aaron Shuchatowitz, rabbi in New Haven; Moshe Halberstam (addressee for 583e) was a dayan in Jerusalem for the Beth Din of the ʻEdah ha-ḥaredit and headed Kolel Ḥibat Yerushalayim; Efraim Fishel Hershkowitz, the dayan of Hallein (a Jewish community of displaced persons in Austria), Chasidic posek and Holocaust survivor (he formed a Beth Din to handle cases emerging from the September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001); Jacob Hoffman, rabbi of Congregation Ohab Zedek on West 95th Street, New York; Yehuda Leib Rose, rabbi of Chevra Bnai Yakov Anshei Brezan, 119 Pitt Street, New York; Jacob Moinester, author and printer in New York; and Israel Porath, Rosh Av beth din (dean of rabbis) for the Orthodox Jewish community in Cleveland, author of Mavo ha-Talmud.

Summary:

These are miscellaneous correspondence documents from rabbis in the United States, mostly dealing with fundraising and charity sums, and variously touching upon family events. 583a is from a Bronx rabbi planning the yearly local gathering of Mizrachi; 583b is a directory of New Haven lay leaders of a local communal organization; 583c is written by the New York representative of Torat Ḥayim in Jerusalem (letterhead spelling Grand General College Toras Chaim); 583d is a letter sent by the trustee of the United Gallil Aid Society, Inc., Brooklyn, New York, to the head of a Safed yeshivah with an enclosed donation ensuring that the Bet midrash would be heated during the winter; 583e is a letter of blessing from a Brooklyn rabbi to his cousin, a dayan in Jerusalem, for the upcoming wedding of his son; 583f is a letter from a Brooklyn rabbi to a rabbi in Budapest urging him to raise any funds possible to preserve a historic burial place of Miskolc Jewry in Mezőkeresztes, Hungary; 583g is a letter from a New York rabbi to Israel Porath thanking him for sending a copy of his newly published book; 583h is another New York rabbi writing to Porath thanking him for sending a copy of the book; 583i is a typewritten letter inserted into a printed book, "Hadrat panim zaḳen" with a handwritten postscript by the author in North Woodmere, New York, possibly to Porath; 583j is a letter to Porath from the secretary of the American Committee of the Moshab Sekenim of Jerusalem, Israel, acknowledging the receipt of the book and adding his comments; 583k is a responsum from Porath to a rabbi in Bene Berak, Israel (cataloged separately).

Contents:

1. UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 583a: Moses Rosenblatt letter to Aaron Potashnik, 6 Shevaṭ 5706 (6 January 1946)

2. UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 583b: Aharon Shuchatowitz letter to Aaron Potashnik, 21 Shevaṭ 5706 (21 January 1946)

3. UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 583c: Avraham Aba Eisenbach letter to Torat Ḥayim Jerusalem, 25 Kislev 5684 (3 December 1923)

4. UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 583d: Israel B. Jaffe letter to Avraham Śimḥah Kaplan, 11 Elul 5724 (19 August 1964)

5. UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 583e: Eisekovitz letter to Moshe Halberstam, 2 Lekh [Lekha] 5734 (29 October 1973)

6. UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 583f: Efraim Fishel Hershkowitz letter to Edmund Ödön Singer, 1 Naśo 5743 (15 May 1983)

7. UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 583g: Jacob Hoffman letter to Israel Porath, 15 Elul 5705 (24 August 1945)

8. UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 583h: Leib Rose letter to Israel Porath, erev Rosh ha-Shanah 5687 (25 September 1927)

9. UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 583i: Moshe N. Wiener print subscriber letter, Kislev 5739 (December 1978)

10. UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 583k: Jacob L. Moinester letter to Israel Porath, 27 Av 5711 (29 August 1951)

11. Israel Porath responsa to N.Z. Friedmann, 5 Ṿe-ahevkha u-verakhekha 5717 (15 August 1957).

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 583.

OCLC:

1356853971