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Collection of [5] letters by the rabbis of the Telz Yeshivas. Chicago, Cleveland, [1914-1976].
Collection of [5] letters on official stationery of the Telz Yeshivas:
* Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch, one of the heads of the Telz Yeshiva, to Rabbi Menachem Porush, about the details of the trip of Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz to Eretz Yisroel in order to examine the possibility of establishing a yeshiva in Israel.
[1] leaf, official stationery, 27 cm. Typewritten with a handwritten signature. Cleveland, Ohio, [1950].
Fold marks, some minor stains, good-very good condition.
* Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz, one of the heads of the Telz Yeshiva, to Rabbi Menachem Glickman-Porush.
[1] leaf, official stationery, 27 cm. Typewritten with a handwritten signature. Cleveland, Ohio, [1950].
Fold marks, good-very good condition.
* Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Baruch Sorotzkin, Rosh Yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva, to Rabbi Menachem Porush, with a request to assist a prisoner of Zion who immigrated to Israel: "To ask him about a senior student of the Telz Yeshiva who survived the Vale of Tears and came to our holy country … at the time he worked to save the refugees of Lithuania from Siberia to Poland and later to our holy land and was captured and spent a long time in prison, and was therefore forced later on to remain in Vilna. As I have heard these ‘Prisoners of Zion’ have special merits and I will ask my friend … to inquire about his state and fate". Wickliffe, Ohio, [1969].
[2] pp. official stationery, 24 cm. Handwritten and signed by him.
Fold marks, filing perforations, good-very good condition.
* Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Shmeltzer, one of the heads of the Telz Yeshiva – the Chicago branch, to Knesset member Rabbi Menachem Porush. "May Hashem give you the strength to continue your holy work for our people … Zeman Elul has begun here in the yeshiva Baruch Hashem and there are many benches and we now begin the 16th year since the establishment of th eyeshiva here in Chicago".
[1] leaf, official stationery of Rabbi Avraham Chaim Levin, Rosh Yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva – Chicago branch, 25 cm. With the original envelope. Chicago, [1976].
Fold marks, filing perforations, good condition.
* Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Chaim Levin, one of the heads of the Telz Yeshiva – Chicago branch, to the leaders of the movement for renewing Agudas Yisroel.
[1] leaf, official stationery of Rabbi Avraham Chaim Levin, Rosh Yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva – Chicago branch, 25 cm. With the original envelope, Chicago, [1976].
Fold marks, good-very good condition.
Background: in 1940, about a year before the Germans occupied Telz, Lithuania, and murdered its Jews, the son and son-in-law of the Maharil Bloch, the rabbis Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch (1895-1956) and Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz (1894-1965) travelled to the USA. They established the new "Telz Yeshiva" in Cleveland, where students from the USA studied as well as a small number of refugees from Telz. Later, the yeshiva moved to Wickliffe, near Cleveland, and was headed by Rabbi Mordechai Gifter and Rabbi Baruch Sorotzkin (1917-1979). In 1960, following a request by the Jewish community of Chicago (Illinois) to establish a yeshiva in their town, a branch of the Telz Yeshiva was established in Chicago. For this purpose, Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz sent Rabbi Avraham Chaim Levin and Rabbi Chaim Shmeltzer with a small group of excelling students to Chicago.
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