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Two photos: Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky / Rebbe of Stropkov

Opening price: $80

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* Photograph of the Av Beit Din, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky. [1867-1948], student of Rabbi Simchah Bunim Sofer, rabbi of Galanta and Chust in Hungary. The Ashkenazic city committee appointed him to serve as rabbi of the Eidah Chareidit of Jerusalem, successor to rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld. Rosh Yeshivah of 'Beit Yosef Tzvi' which was named on his name, and among the heads of Agudat Yisrael B'Eretz Yisrael. 14x9 cm. Staple marks at the top and bottom. Fine condition.

* Photograph of the Admor Menachem Mendel of Stropkov [1885-1954]: The second Admor of Stropkov. Was appointed Admor after his father's passing in the summer of 1940. Survived the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry. At the end of 1944 he hid in a bunker in Pressburg and promised in writing that all those in the bunker would be saved. He lost his entire family in the Holocaust with the exception of one granddaughter, who established a family after the war. Upon his arrival in the United States, he began to restore the chassidut in a study hall he established in Williamsburg. He was laid to rest in HaMenuchot Mountain in Jerusalem after his coffin was brought to Israel. Size: 9x7 cm. Fine condition.

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95. Two photos: Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky / Rebbe of Stropkov