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Benjamin Marcus letter, to Jacob Mendelson, 1940 July : manuscript.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 26 Folder 25
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Marcus, Benjamin, -1958, correspondent.
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Get (Jewish law).
- Rabbis--California--Los Angeles--20th century--Correspondence.
- Rabbis.
- Rabbis--New Jersey--Newark--20th century--Correspondence.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Rarity Auction House (Spring Valley, N.Y.), November 2024.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 22 cm
- Production:
- Los Angeles, California, 1940 July
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 26 Folder 25
- Language Note:
- In Hebrew; address written in English.
- Biography/History:
- Benjamin Marcus (Hebrew: בנימין מארקוס), Rabbi in the Atereth Zion Congregation, Los Angeles until his death in 1958 (see: B'nai B'rith Messenger, 31 January 1958; "the first L.A. Rabbi to visit the new State' [of Israel]; ibid.), formerly rabbi in Chicago, and formerly rabbi in Odesa [Ukraine], Yevpatoria [Crimea], and Tiflis [Tbilisi, Georgia] -- stationery header.
- Jacob Mendelson (יעקב בן-ציון מנדלסון), Chief Rabbi of Newark and authority on Jewish law (ordinated by Yosef Rosen, known as the Rogachover Ga'on), first rabbi in Leeds, then Gateshead [England], Glasgow [Scotland], then appointed rabbi in Newark in 1915; his works include Shaʻare Tsiyon (Leeds, 1903), Sefer ha-Tsad (Leeds, 1904), and the multvolume Mishnat Yaʻavets.
- Summary:
- Letter, Parashat Balaḳ 5700 [between July 8 and 12, 1940] requesting that Mendelson, then an authority on Jewish law, meet a separated couple (Eleanor Montner, from Newark, and Yitsḥak Lipa Packer, likely from Los Angeles, sent by Marcus to Mendelson) to consult with him regarding a get (Jewish divorce), as Mendelson had insisted earlier that he must hear the couple pronounce their determination for a get.
- Notes:
- Written on Marcus' printed letterhead (headed in Hebrew and English: הרב בנימין מארקוס, רב דבית המדרש [הגדול] - with his handwritten עטרת ציון - לאס אנדזשעלעס - ומלפנים רב באדעססא, ביעוופאטאריא, בטיפליס, ובשיקאגא = Rabbi B. Marcus, Cong. Cincinnati St. Synagogue, 2523 Cincinnati Street, Los Angeles, Calif.".
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Goldstein Gensler Fund.
- Cited as:
- Benjamin Marcus Letter to Jacob Mendelson (Misc Mss Box 26 Folder 25). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1528197267
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