Collection of ten letters handwritten and signed by R. Avraham Yoffen dean of the Beit Yosef-Novardok network of yeshivot. United States, 1946-1962.
Addressed to his disciple R. Benzion Bruk, dean of the Beit Yosef-Novardok yeshiva in Jerusalem. The letters discuss matters pertaining to the yeshiva and its graduates (Holocaust survivors from various countries, students going to study in Eretz Israel, and more), as well as communal and private matters.
R. Avraham Yoffen (1886-1970), son-in-law and close disciple of the Alter of Novardok. He headed the Beit Yosef-Novardok network of yeshivot for fifty years, and was one of leading Torah disseminators in his times, risking his life to further Torah study even under communist rule. In 1941, he reached the United States, where he lived for some twenty years, establishing a yeshiva there as well. In 1964, he immigrated to Eretz Israel, spending his final years in Jerusalem.
10 letters. Size and condition vary. One letter on official stationery, the others are aerograms.
