An interesting collection of 60 letters of rabbis from the United States, 1940s and 1950s. Most of the letters were sent to the Land of Israel by aerogram to Rabbi Shmuel Shdrowitzky, the son of Rabbi Meir Shalom of Bialystok, and they include personal matters as well as issues related to the spiritual affairs in the United States and Eretz Israel.
The Rabbis whose letters appear in the collection: Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Zilberberg 1948, Hl Sackon Ohio 1949. Three letters by Rabbi Moshe Wolf bekerman, two letters by Rabbi Yitzchak Hirsch Los Angeles1947, Rabbi D. Rappaport 1948, Rabbi Don Bisonboum, Rabbi Mordechai Zalman baman, Rabbi Zrizki, Rabbi Yitzchak son of Rabbi Zeev Berman of Montreal Rabbi Nachman Freiman of Brooklyn, four letters by Rabbi Pereger of Brooklyn, three letters by Rabbi Yitzchak son of Rabbi Zeev Berman of Montreal, Rabbi Yehuda Rosenfeld, Rabbi D. Rappaport, Rabbi Vichtefogel, Rabbi Zalman Rosenfeld of Brooklyn, Rabbi Yehuda Rosenfeld of Brooklyn, Rabbi B. Rotenberg, Rabbi YM Rosenfeld of Brooklyn, Rabbi Yosef Friedman of Brooklyn, Rabbi Shmuel Yosef Rosenfeld of Brooklyn; Rabbi Abramowitz, Rabbi B. Budenberg, Rabbi David Sahan, Rabbi David Eisenberg, Rabbi Israel HaLevi Horowitz of Toronto, Rabbi Mordechai Zalman of Brooklyn, Rabbi Zalman Plotnik, many. Rabbi m. Vagshal, Rabbi Shmuel Yosef Rosenfeld Brooklyn, Rabbi Hillel Liebau Los Angeles, Rabbi Yechiel David Rappaport.
The collection has not been thoroughly examined.
The recipient of the letters Rabbi Shmuel Shdrowitzky (1907-1978), son of Rabbi Meir Shalom of Bialystok and son-in-law of Rabbi Pinchas Iscar of Pintszew and Sosnowiec. Rabbi and admor of Bialystok, active in "Agudat Yisrael" in Poland and one of the faithful of the home of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzansky, Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Chairman of Agudath Israel in Tel Aviv. During the Holocaust he was sent to the Far East on rescue missions, on behalf of Agudath Israel and the Association of Polish Rabbis, to deal with the refugees in the Far East, Siberia and throughout Russia. Served as representative of the Jewish Agency and the Polish government-in-exile. In later years he also dealt extensively with matters of education and charity, and headed the secret activity of Agudath Israel to send aid to Russian Jews under the Iron Curtain.
General condition: very good.
