Yedidiah Shofet letter, to Ḥayim Tsevi Kruger, 1960 December 8 : manuscript.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Shofet, Yedidiah, 1908- correspondent.

Contributor:

Kruger, Ḥayim Tsevi, 1904-1982, addressee.

Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, associated name.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

קרוגער, חיים צבי.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews, Iranian--New York (State)--New York--20th century--Divorce.

Jews, Iranian.

Rabbis--Iran--Tehran--20th century--Correspondence.

Rabbis.

Rabbis--New York (State)--New York--20th century--Correspondence.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Hebrew, -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Kestenbaum & Company (New York, N.Y.), auction 96 (9 February 2022), lot 15.

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 28 cm

Production:

Tehran, 1960 December 8

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 26 Folder 16

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Biography/History:

Final Chief Rabbi of Iranian Jews (until the 1979 Iranian Revolution, relocating with most of his community to Los Angeles, California).

Summary:

Typed and signed letter of 19 Kislev 5721 [December 8, 1960], responding for the inquiry regarding mailing the Jewish divorce document for Djez Apin (?; דזשאז עפין) bat Menaḥem, upon her decision to remarry in New York; Kruger was the overseer of divorce and agunot for the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (also known as the Agudat ha-Rabonim).

Cited as:

Yedidiah Shofet Letter to Ḥayim Tsevi Kruger (Misc Mss Box 26 Folder 16). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1524900657