Baruch Markus correspondence : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Markus, Baruch, 1870-1961, associated name, scribe.

Contributor:

Kaniel, Yehoshua, 1896-1970, signer.

Kook, Abraham Isaac, 1865-1935, correspondent.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Rabbis--Israel--Haifa--20th century--Correspondence.

Rabbis.

Genre:

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Kestenbaum & Co, Auction 96 lot 56.

Physical Description:

3 letters : paper ; 22 cm (and smaller)

Production:

Haifa, 1923-1949

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large). Box 3 Folder 27

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Biography/History:

First Chief Rabbi of Haifa (1906-1961); born in Rietavas, Lithuania (near Kaunas) and studied at the Kelm Yeshiva under Simḥah Zissel Broida; installed by Joseph Hayyim Sonnenfeld and Abraham Isaac Kook.

Summary:

Correspondence of Baruch Markus, first Chief Rabbi of Haifa; one handwritten letter to Abraham Isaac Kook, 27 Tamuz [5]682 [23 July 1922], regarding correspondence from Warsaw and another from Germany; and three formal typed letters, concerning rabbinical matters, with his autograph and that of Yehoshua Kaniel (1896-1970, then second to the Chief Rabbi, later Chief Rabbi of Haifa after 1961).

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger.

Cited as:

Baruch Markus correspondence (Misc Mss (Large) Box 3 Folder 27). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1540979962