A large and rare photograph of Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinski, the chief rabbi of the "Haredi community", in holiday clothes accompanied by his followers, against the background of the Temple Mount (El Omar Mosque). Jerusalem, c. 1930s. Signed with the photographer's stamp: "Y. Ben Dov Bezalel - Jerusalem". Photographed, on Chol HaMoed, during the rabbi's return from the prayer at the Western Wall.
Rabbi Yosef Zvi - The Maharit'z Dushinsky [1868-1949], one of the greatest geniuses of Hungary and one of the most famous Torah scholars of his generation. In his youth he studied with Rabbi Simcha Bonam Sofer, rabbi of Pressburg, and with Rabbi Moshe Polak, rabbi of Bonihad. He served as rabbi in Galanta and Khust, where he also headed some of the largest and most important yeshivas in Hungary. In 1933, he immigrated to Eretz Israel to fill the place of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld as chief rabbi of the "Haredi community" in Jerusalem and Eretz Israel. In Jerusalem, he re-established his yeshiva "Beit Yosef Zvi" on his name and taught there. He led the ultra-Orthodox Jewry in Eretz Israel.
30x24 cm. Very good condition.
