Auction 050 Part 1 Satmar: Rebbes and Rabbis of Satmar-Sighet, Hungary and Transylvania
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Teshuot Chaim, on Rashi's commentary to the Torah, by R. Chaim Yeshayah Halbersberg, author of Misgeret HaShulchan. Lublin: Nechemyah Herschenhorn and Shlomo Shimon Streisberger, 1923.
Copy of R. Moshe Aryeh (Rama) Freund, from his tenure as dayan and posek in Satmar (after the Holocaust). His stamps (somewhat faded) at the beginning of the book: "Moshe Aryeh Freund, dayan and posek of Satmar". Stamp of R. Yitzchak Hershkovitz.
R. Moshe Aryeh Freund (1904-1996), son of R. Yisrael Freund, Av Beit Din of Bonyhád and grandson of Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Freund of Năsăud. Served as dayan and posek in Satmar and Av Beit Din of Năsăud. After the Holocaust, he served for a short time as Av Beit Din of Satmar. He later immigrated to Jerusalem and served as dean of the Satmar Yitav Lev yeshiva and as a posek in the city. After the passing of his teacher, Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar in 1979, he took up his position as Rosh Av Beit Din of the Edah HaCharedit, and after the passing of the Minchat Yitzchak in 1989, he was appointed to his position as Gaon Av Beit Din of the Edah HaCharedit.
[1], 2-52 leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and mold stains. Minor defects. Stamps. New leather binding.
Torat Chatat by R. Moshe Isserles (the Rama), with Minchat Yaakov and Torat HaShelamim by R. Yaakov Reischer, Vikuach Mayim Chaim by R. Chaim son of Betzalel of Friedberg (brother of the Maharal of Prague), Damesek Eliezer by R. Eliezer son of Yehoshua of Szczebrzeszyn (Shebreshin), and additional commentaries. Piotrków: Yitzchak Shlomowitch, 1903. Divisional title pages for Torat HaShelamim, Vikuach Mayim Chaim and Damesek Eliezer.
Copy of R. Moshe Aryeh (Rama) Freund, from his tenure as dayan and posek in Satmar (after the Holocaust). His stamps appear on the title page and margins of other leaves: "Moshe Aryeh Freund, dayan and posek of Satmar".
This copy was previously in possession of his father, R. Yisrael Freund, Av Beit Din of Radna and Huedin. On the margins of the title page, an ownership inscription (partially cut off) handwritten by his son, R. Moshe Aryeh Freund: "…the Tzaddik R. Yisrael Freund, Av Beit Din of Randa and the region, Aryeh".
Handwritten glosses on the margins of several pages.
R. Moshe Aryeh Freund (1904-1996), son of R. Yisrael Freund, Av Beit Din of Bonyhád and grandson of Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Freund of Năsăud. Served as dayan and posek in Satmar and Av Beit Din of Năsăud. After the Holocaust, he served for a short time as Av Beit Din of Satmar. He later immigrated to Jerusalem and served as dean of the Satmar Yitav Lev yeshiva and as a posek in the city. After the passing of his teacher, Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar in 1979, he took up his position as Rosh Av Beit Din of the Edah HaCharedit, and after the passing of the Minchat Yitzchak in 1989, he was appointed to his position as Gaon Av Beit Din of the Edah HaCharedit.
His father, R. Yisrael Freund, Av Beit Din of Radna and Huedin (ca. 1873-1940), son of Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Freund of Năsăud, son of R. Moshe Aryeh Freund, leader of Sighet community. In his youth he lived in Sighet and attended the Yitav Lev of Sighet. In 1906 he was appointed Av Beit Din of Radna, and after the passing of his father-in-law R. Ze'ev Goldberger in 1917, he accepted a position as Rabbi in Huedin, where he served for about twenty years. He traveled often to Sanz Tzaddikim, and particularly kept the company of his teacher, the Divrei Yechezkel of Shinova. After his passing, Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar eulogized him as "unique in his generation in the trait of humility" (Mara DeUvda, III, p. 290). His novellae are printed in Ateret Yehoshua on the Torah and Talmud.
[2], 67; [1], 2-21; 11; 11; 9, [1]; [2], 3-26 leaves. Approx. 30 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Creases and tears. Open tears on the margins of the title page and on first two pages, affecting text, restored with paper (verso of title page pasted to a blank leaf). Stamps. New leather binding.
Tehillim with commentary Imrot Tehorot, by R. Eliezer HaLevi Horowitz, Av Beit Din of Tarnogród. Sighet: Moshe Blumenfeld and his son-in-law Yechiel Michel David, [1900]. Two title pages (second title page is expanded).
The first Chassidic commentary on Tehillim to be printed, by R. Eliezer HaLevi Horowitz, Av Beit Din of Tarnogród (died 1806). Disciple of R. Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov and R. Elimelech of Lizhensk, and a peer and disciple to the Chozeh of Lublin and the Maggid of Kozhnitz.
Includes approbations from first edition, including that of R. Aryeh Leibush Lipschitz, author of Aryeh DeVei Ila’i, Av Beit Din of Vishnitsa (son-in-law of Yismach Moshe of Ujhel), who tells in his approbation that he met the author in his youth: “…I merited to enjoy his light and I knew him then in my youth… and he was full of delight and truthful sharpness… whoever saw him recognized the great light of his holiness and temperance, as I knew for a fact while I lived in Shinova…”.
Copy of R. David Moskowitz, Rabbi of Bonyhád – his stamps on the title page and endpapers: “David Moskowitz – Kerestir” - R. David Moskowitz of Bonyhád (1909-1985) was born in Kerestir (Bodrogkeresztúr). Son-in-law (by his first marriage) of the Vayaged Yaakov of Pápa. After the Holocaust, he served as rabbi of Bonyhád and Miskolc. In the 1950s, he immigrated to Jerusalem, serving as posek in the Edah HaCharedit. Reputed as a holy, pious and ascetic man, wondrous stories of his holiness and fiery fear of God abound. He edited the books of his teachers, the Levush Mordechai of Mád and the Keren LeDavid of Satmar. A leading Belzer chassid, he was also close to the Skver, Dushinsky and Satmar Chassidic courts (in the period between the passing of Rebbe Aharon of Belz and the appointment of the current Rebbe, Belz chassidim would gather to pray during the High Holidays in the Belz yeshiva in Jerusalem, and would honor the rabbi of Bonyhád with conducting the Mussaf prayers – prayer usually led by the Rebbe).
[9], 8-431, [1] leaves. Without additional leaf of approbations and [11] leaves with names of pre-subscribers, which were added only to some prints. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Creases and wear. Light damage. New leather binding.
Tehillim with commentary Olelot Yehudah by R. Yehudah Greenwald, Av Beit Din of Satmar, author of Zichron Yehudah, with "Iggeret Musar of the Ramban" and "Tzetel Katan of R. Elimelech". Satmar: Meir Leib Hirsch, 1927. First edition.
The present copy was owned by the author's nephew, R. Avraham Chanoch Friedman, dayan and posek of Satmar, who gave it as a wedding gift to R. Avraham son of the philanthropist R. Moshe Shiman [R. Moshe Shiman is mentioned in the list of donors at the end of the book]. At the top of the title page is a handwritten dedication: "wedding gift to… Avraham son of the philanthropist R. Moshe Shiman from her for his wedding day, and may they be a good match and merit to build a faithful Jewish home… from his friend, Avraham Chanoch Friedman, local dayan and posek"; under the dedication appears his stamp: "Avraham Chanoch Friedman, dayan and posek of the orthodox community, Satmar".
The approbation of this R. Avraham Chanoch Friedman is printed at the beginning of the book, attesting that he gave R. Chaim Tzvi Zimmend, "a faithful and very dear student of R. Yehudah Greenwald", the author's manuscript on Tehillim: "I hereby give him this column as proof that I happily gave him copies of the commentary Olelot Yehudah on Tehillim which the holy author left behind".
In the list of signatories in the city of Carei at the end of the book appear the names of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar and his son-in-law R. Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Mayer-Teitelbaum.
Rabbi Avraham Chanoch Friedman (1866-1944; perished in the Holocaust), son of the Chatam Sofer's daughter, close disciple and confidant of his uncle Rabbi Yehudah Greenwald, who adopted him as a son and married him to his niece. He edited and published the works of his teacher Rabbi Greenwald and of his grandfather the Chatam Sofer. He served for decades as a dayan and posek in Satmar (from 1905), directed a large yeshiva in it, and served as Rabbi of the Machazikei Torah Ashkenazi synagogue in the city. He was a supporter of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum's appointment as Rebbe of Satmar.
[4], 256, [10] leaves. 22.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Open tear on the margins of leaf 89, affecting the margins of the text. Stamps. Gilt edges. Fine new leather binding.
Variant – in the present copy, [10] leaves are printed at the end of the book in which many more names are added to the list of "donors" and "signatories"; in most copies only [4] leaves are printed.
Letter (on a postcard) handwritten by R. Avraham Chanoch Friedman, dayan and posek of Satmar and grandson of the Chatam Sofer. Satmar, September 7, 1934.
Sent to Baden, Switzerland, addressed to his relative R. Moshe Bollag (son-in-law of R. Moshe Bunam Krauss, Av Beit Din of Baden, author of Minchat Moshe, nephew of R. Avraham Chanoch and great-grandson of the Chatam Sofer): "When the sound of the shofar is heard, may he be inscribed for good life immediately in the book of the righteous, and many good and sweet years and all good, to my dear… R. Moshe, son-in-law of my nephew…".
At the beginning of his letter R. Avraham Chanoch sends his thanks and blessing for the donation of 70 francs he sent: "With thanks for your goodness and righteousness in concealing my name from my family, and may God give me my livelihood from His full and wide hand that we never be ashamed and shamefaced, and with your charity may you merit to perform mitzvot and good deeds in wealth, honor and long life". He goes on to send him new year blessings: "And so I bless you and your family with new year blessings, to merit Ketivah VaChatimah Tovah, and may God bring you and your household a good, sweet new year, and may He send blessing and success in all your endeavors, Amen… Avraham Chanoch Friedman".
R. Avraham Chanoch Friedman (1866-1944; perished in the Holocaust), grandson of the Chatam Sofer and close disciple of R. Yehudah Grünwald, who adopted him as a young boy and married him to his niece. He edited and published of the writings of his teacher R. Yehudah Grünwald and his grandfather the Chatam Sofer. He served for decades as dayan and posek in Satmar (starting 1905), led a large yeshiva there and served as Rabbi of the Machazikei Torah Ashkenaz synagogue in the city. He was a supporter of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum's appointment as Rabbi of Satmar.
Postcard. Approx. 15x10.5 cm. Good condition. Light wear. Stamps and postmarks. Stamp (in Latin characters) of R. Avraham Chanoch.
Interesting assorted collection of fefteen letters from rabbis, Chassidim and pious laymen from Satmar, including Beit Din rulings, signed and stamped by the dayanim. [Satmar and surroundings, 1916-ca. 1950.] Hebrew and Yiddish.
• Letter of R. Eliyahu HaLevi Epstein of Satmar to R. Yosef Leib Sofer, Av Beit Din of Paks. Satmar, [1916]. The letter contains a fascinating description of the 1890 Seder night with R. Eliezer Zusman Sofer, Av Beit Din of Paks: "…While he was reciting the Hallel with purity and beauty, it was as if his worldly existence were nullified… Our legs were shivering and our hair was standing at its edge while we heard the express words of the greatest of the great…" [part of the letter is printed in Mizkeret Paks, II, p. 82]. At the bottom part of the leaf is a Kvitel inscription for a blessing with his and his mother's name, and the names of his wife and children.
• Lengthy Torah letter to R. Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich of Şimleu Silvaniei. One and a half pages, handwritten (not signed; on official stationery of the Jewish community of Șomcuta Mare). Apparently written by one of the town rabbis. [Șomcuta Mare], Isru Chag Shavuot [1931].
• Permission for an agunah to remarry, handwritten, signed and stamped by R. Eliyahu Leichtag, "dayan and posek of the Orthodox community of Satmar", with signatures of the dayanim who comprised the Beit Din: R. Shimshon Rosenberg ("Shimson son of R. Yehudah Leib Rosenberg") and R. Yaakov Leib Frankel ("Yaakov Leib Frankel, author of Gevurat Aryeh and Migdanot Maharil"). Satmar, 27 Shevat, 1932.
• Letter on a postcard, handwritten and signed by R. Yosef Shimon Pollak of Satmar, editor of the periodical Beit Vaad LaChachamim and author of Rashei Besamim. Satmar, 1929. Sent to his son in Budapest [apparently R. Moshe Yehudah Pollak, editor of the monthly periodical HaYeshivah]. In the letter, his father tells him of the Tishrei festivals in the company of his rebbe [apparently Rebbe Aharon Rokeach of Belz] and the holy rabbi of Carei [apparently Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum during his tenure as Av Beit Din of Carei]: "Your brother Chaim Yehoshua traveled home… and he was [with Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum] in Carei on Chol HaMoed, and he honored him greatly and also inquired about you… And I am weary from travel… since I slept no night before 3:00, because we stood by the door many nights to merit to enter, and afterwards all the days of the festival the meals ended every night at 4:00 – and there was no rain during the festival… And what can I say, having seen his service day and night, and all his followers standing before him in fear – If God wills it, I will travel next Sunday to the Tzaddik of Carei [Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum] for him to sign permitting the agunah to remarry… Yosef Shimon".
• Letter on postcard, handwritten and signed by R. Yosef Shimon Pollak of Satmar, editor of the periodical Beit Vaad LaChachamim and author of Rashei Besamim. Satmar, 1936. Sent to R. Menashe Margaliot in Brooklyn, New York, regarding printing his novellae.
• Two letters from the "Beit Din Tzedek of the Orthodox community of Satmar and the region", signed by dayan and posek of Satmar R. Yishai Hecht Weintraub. Satmar, [Shevat and Adar] 1949. The letters deal with saving copies of Responsa Avnei Zikaron which were left sitting in the printing house of R. Meir Leib Hirsch in Satmar, "so that strangers not possess them and for the honor of the Torah not to be desecrated". The first letter was sent to the author, R. Alter Shaul Pfeffer, and the second letter was sent to his son, R. Meir Yehudah Pfeffer, who informed him that his father had long since passed away [R. Alter Shaul Pfeffer had passed away in the United States in 1936], and he asks the son to pay the expenses of recovering the books and sending them to him.
• Lengthy letter handwritten and signed by "Yissachar Dov son of R. Tz. of Veretzka (Nyzhni Vorota), grandson of R. A.A. of Brod". Request for help and financial assistance from R. Yitzchak Sodden, rabbi of Ohev Shalom synagogue in Brooklyn. Satmar, [13 Sivan], 1929. The author is the Chassid R. Yissachar Dov Weinberger (ca. 1871-1944, perished in the Holocaust), a Belz Chassid and leader of Satmar, descended from the Fränkel-Teomim family.
• Permission to marry, handwritten, signed and stamped by R. Yitzchak Klein, Rosh Av Beit Din of Satmar [editor of the monthly Torah periodical Ohel Yitzchak and HaMaggid]. Satmar, [30 Adar], 1942.
• Three letters from the "Beit Din of the Orthodox community of Satmar and the region" – after the Holocaust, records of testimony on people who perished in the Holocaust and permission to remarry. One of them is signed by the three dayanim: Rosh Av Beit Din R. Moshe Aryeh Freund, R. Shlomo Zalman Friedman and R. Avraham Tzvi Weiss. Satmar, 1946-1947.
• Letter to Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar from Mrs. Esther Wiesel. Satmar, [apparently after the Holocaust]. Yiddish. The letter is torn and incomplete. • Letter to Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar from the mashgiach R. Yechiel Yehudah Wallengstein. [Ca. 1950s.] Yiddish.
• Letter signed and stamped by R. Yechiel Ausch, Av Beit Din of Vulcan and after the war dayan and posek in Satmar; a request for help and assistance for the upcoming Passover festival by R. Yitzchak Sodden, rabbi of Ohev Shalom synagogue in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, New York, [ca. 1950s]. Yiddish.
• Enclosed: Early facsimile of a letter (four large pages) by the Chassid R. Yirmeyahu Kahn (written in Iyar, 1963), in which he describes at length the Seder night and days of the Passover festival he spent with Rebbe Yoel of Satmar, and reviews the Torah teachings and novellae he heard from the rebbe at the time.
16 items. Varying size and condition. Overall good condition. One letter in fair condition.
Large handwritten leaf, ten statutes of the Poel Tzedek Society in Satmar, signed by the treasurers and directors of the society. Satmar, April 25, 1872. Western Yiddish.
Large leaf, written on both sides. The statutes are prefaced with the objectives of the founding of the "Poel Tzedek" Society in the city, which was to provide assistance to poor mothers for the circumcision and the celebration thereof by poor families. In return, the society members were to be granted the honors such as the Sandak role in the circumcision. Below appear ten statutes detailing the elections, guidelines for accepting new members, taxes and ongoing payments, roles and honors, and more.
On the reverse side of the page are the signatures of about 14 treasurers and directors of the society: Moshe Bloch, Herman Klein, Leopold Bichholtz, Adolf Kestenbaum, Yaakov Hersh Deissig, and (in Latin letters) Klein Dávid, Grünbaum Herman, Roth Ahron, Blum Mihael, Glűck Samuel, and more.
On the margins of the leaf is the official wax seal of the Satmar Jewish community and an inscription in Hungarian, signed – Satmar, April 14, 1873.
[1] leaf. 40.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Tears and light damage to margins.
Handwritten leaf, 11 ordinances and restrictions regarding shochatim and laws of shechita, signed by R. Moshe Yosef Hoffman, the "dayan of Pupa" (Pápa). [Apparently Pápa, ca. late 19th century.]
Written on the reverse side of official stationery: "Moshe Yosef Hoffman – dayan of Pupa", with his signature – "Moshe Yosef son of R. M[ichael] Hoffman". Next to it is the signature of "Mendel Steiner" [apparently also a dayan of Pápa].
In the margin are added instructions relating to payment for immersing in a mikveh.
R. Moshe Yosef Hoffman, "the dayan of Pupa" (1843-1928), was a leading Torah scholar of Hungary and Jerusalem. He was born in Szerdahely (Dunajská Streda) in 1843 to his father R. Michael Hoffman, a disciple of the Chatam Sofer. He was a disciple of R. Yehudah Assad, and later studied under the Ketav Sofer. He was appointed dayan and posek of Pupa (Pápa) in 1882. In 1909 he immigrated to Jerusalem, where he established his Beit Midrash [known to this day as that of the dayan of Pupa]. He was one of the foremost authorities in Jerusalem, and was renowned as a wonderworker whose blessings were fulfilled. His famous disciples include R. Shabtai Sheftel Weiss, Av Beit Din of Nagysimonyi, and R. Yehoshua Buxbaum, Av Beit Din of Galanta. R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Rabbi of Jerusalem, also considered him one of his teachers. His books include Mei Be'er and Mayim Chaim.
[1] leaf. 22.5 cm. Good condition. Folds and creases. Stains and wear. Small holes to margins and folds.
Collection of 75 official documents in Hungarian, most filled in handwriting, and signed and stamped by Hungarian rabbis and community leaders just before the Holocaust – registration of Pinkasim (community ledgers). [Hungary, ca. 1939.] Hungarian.
Official documents, apparently printed by the Central Orthodox Bureau in Budapest and sent to rabbis and leaders of various Hungarian communities for them to register the breadth and range of years of Pinkasim documenting births, marriages, deaths and conscriptions existing in their communities. The forms were filled in by hand by rabbis and community leaders, who added various handwritten notes and inscriptions with additional information about the Pinkasim in their communities. Most of the forms bear the official stamp of the congregation.
The present item is a rare and exceptional documentation of the various Pinkasim in Hungary just before the Holocaust. Most of the rabbis and community leaders who signed the documents perished in the Holocaust.
The collection includes:
• Form for the Pinkasim of Sopron (Ödenburg), filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Shimon Yisrael Posen [1895-1969; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 412-414].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Verpelet, filled in by hand and signed, apparently by rabbi of the community R. Yosef Asher HaLevi Pollak [1898-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 148-149].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Dunaföldvár, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yitzchak Zekel Pollak [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria p. 117].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Szerencs, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Menachem HaLevi Pollak [1890-1953; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 298-299].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Neuhäusel (Érsekújvár), filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yosef Meir Tigerman [1852-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 47-49].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Békéscsaba, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yitzchak Tigerman [1890-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 63-64].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Kunszentmiklós, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yitzchak Tzvi Eizik Panet [1902-1968; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 374-375].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Weitzen (Vác), filled in by hand, signed and stamped by rabbi of the community R. David Yehudah Leib Silberstein [1885-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 145-146].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Beled, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Aharon Silberstein [perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 53-54].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Mezőcsát, filled in by hand and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Shraga Tzvi Altman [1898-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 206-207].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Bayom (Biharnagybajom), filled in by hand and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Naftali Brisk [1904-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 88].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Tiszadada, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. David Yaakov Brisk [perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 180].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Polgár, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Menachem Mendel Lemberger [1874-1943; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 337-338].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Feledhaza (Kiskunfélegyháza), filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Aharon Mordechai Lieberman [1886-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 382-383].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Vágsellye, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Mordechai HaKohen Strasser [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria p. 140-141].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Tiszafüred, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Shmuel Binyamin HaKohen Strasser [1890-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 183-184].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Szenc, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Menachem Mendel (Mano) Bresnitz [1883-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 288].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Kiskőrös, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yaakov Sneiders [died 1984; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 383-384].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Balatonfüred, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Ezra Menachem Goldstein [died 1942; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 54-55].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Komárom, filled in by hand, signed and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Yehoshua Lefkowitz [1894-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 369-370].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Derecske, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Tzvi Hirsch Katz Kahn [died 1971; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 109-110].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Pétervására, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Shmuel Reinitz, author of Arugat HaBosem [perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 315].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Mezőkeresztes, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Menachem Tzvi Friedman [perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 208].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Bátorkeszi, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Tzvi HaKohen Shatin [born 1884, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 50-51].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Nagysalló, filled in by hand and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Yosef Abeles [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 375-376].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Szepsi, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Moshe Tennenbaum [1886-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 292].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Tarcal, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yehoshua Heshel Rosner [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria p. 167].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Kolta, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Aryeh Reichhardt [1883-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 368].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Sárbogárd, filled in by hand and signed, apparently by rabbi of the community R. Yekutiel Ze'ev Roth [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 406-407].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Csepreg, filled in by hand, apparently by rabbi of the community R. Yechezkel Shraga HaKohen Moskowitz [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria p. 347].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Rimaszombat, filled in by hand and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Eliezer Singer [1888-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 396-397].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Jóka, filled in by hand, signed and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Shmuel König [1890-1945, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 190-191].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Hahót, filled in by hand, signed and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Yosef Rosenberger [Kehillot Hungaria p. 119].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Sajószentpéter, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Moshe Chaim Grünfeld [1888-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 400-402].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Püspökladány, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Avraham Segal Strauss [died 1940; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 341-342].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Ózd-Bolyok, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yerachmiel Katzburg [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 12-13].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Tiszabercel, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Ezra HaKohen Fried [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria p. 179].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Nagyida, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yisrael Felberman [died 1942; Kehillot Hungaria p. 232].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Gyönk, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yosef Yitzchak Meisner [1875-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 99-100].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Nyíracsád, filled in by hand and signed, apparently by rabbi of the community R. Avraham Yosef Lichtenstein [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 268-269].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Diósgyőr, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Tuviah Peretz Stein [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 117-118].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Pomáz, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Aharon Tzvi Gross [perished in the Holocaust 1945; Kehillot Hungaria p. 339].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Tolcsva, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Akiva Pinchas Kornitzer [ca. 1900-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 171-172].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Torna, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Shmuel Tennenbaum [1889-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 174-175].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Nemesszalók, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. David Schick [1872-perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 262].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Gúta (Kolárovo), filled in by hand, signed and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Yechiel Baum [1977-1940; Kehillot Hungaria p. 96].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Cece, filled in by hand and signed by R. Yekutiel Ze'ev Roth, Av Beit Din of Sárbogárd [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 348, 406-407].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Erdőbénye, filled in by hand and signed by president of the community R. Shimon Gutman [Kehillot Hungaria pp. 63-64].
The collection likewise contains additional forms filled in by hand, with or without the stamps of the community (or signed by rabbis or community leaders we were unable to identify), including forms for the Pinkasim of the following communities: • Bűdszentmihály; • Nagymegyer (Magendorf); • Munkács; • Ungvár; • Eger (Erlau); • Mád; • Gyömöre (Yemering); • Nagykálló (Kaliv); • Nagysurány; • Szatmárököritó; • Zala Mihályfa; • Kassa (Košice); • Tab; • Jolsva; • Czecze; • Székesfehérvár; • Hejőcsaba; • Dévaványa; • Nagyoroszi; • Tiszalök; • Kaba; • Szarvas; • Vámosmikola; • Abaújszina (Seňa); • Győrszentmárton (Martinsberg); • Kapuvár.
[75] leaves. 34 cm. Overall good condition.
Collection of 40 official forms – printed questionnaires filled in and signed by Hungarian rabbis. Forms sent to Hungarian authorities in 1940, and other forms sent to the Hungarian military in 1942. Hungarian.
Official questionnaires filled in by hand (or typewritten) by community rabbis, containing detailed personal information on the rabbis who filled out the forms: the name of the rabbi, where he served as rabbi, his date and place of birth, his address, his official role in the community, his year of appointment as rabbi, where he previously served as rabbi, which authority approved the choice of him as rabbi, who ordained him as rabbi, what the Jewish population was in the city during the most recent census, enclosed documents, and more. The forms are signed by the local rabbi (who filled out the document) and the rabbi of the province. All the forms bear the official stamps of the rabbis and community leaders.
The present item is a rare and exceptional documentation of the rabbis and their communities just before the Holocaust, containing much information unknown from other sources. Most of the rabbis and community leaders who signed the documents perished in the Holocaust.
The collection includes forms (Bejelentőlap) issued by the Hungarian authorities and filled out in 1940:
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Meir Leifer, Av Beit Din of Felsökalocsa, and signed and stamped by rabbi of the province and Volova (Okörmezö, Mizhhiria).
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Aharon Kahana, Av Beit Din of Bistra (Petrovabisztra; grandson of Rebbe Yosef Meir Weiss, the Imrei Yosef of Spinka), and signed by community leaders.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Yitzchak Schreiber (Sofer), Av Beit Din of Havasköz, signed and stamped by rabbi of the province R. Tzvi Hirsch Schreiber (Sofer), Av Beit Din of Nagyberezna, and signed by the community president and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Chaim Friedman, Av Beit Din of Szomotor, signed and stamped by rabbi of the province R. Yoel Ze'ev Glattstein, Av Beit Din of Királyhelmecz, and signed by the community president and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Chaim Grünzweig, Av Beit Din of Ladmóc (son of R. Asher Zelig Grünzweig, Av Beit Din of Dovhe), signed by the community leader and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Yehoshua Lerner, Av Beit Din of Volóc (Volovets), signed by the community leader and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Natan Yosef Zimtbaum, rabbi in Grosswardein (Nagyvárad; grandson of R. Pinchas Zimtbaum, Av Beit Din of Grosswardein), signed by the community leaders and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Aharon Tzvi Kestenbaum, signed and stamped by R. Shlomo Yitzchak HaKohen Schönfeld, Av Beit Din of Tiszaújlak, signed by the president of the community and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Shlomo Yitzchak HaKohen Schönfeld, Av Beit Din of Tiszaújlak, signed by the president of the community and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Yitzchak Tzvi (Gyula) Fürst of the Talmud Torah society in Dunaszerdahely, signed by the rabbi of the province (apparently the signature of R. Hillel Weinberger, Av Beit Din of Dunaszerdahely), with the signatures and stamps of the community and community leaders.
• Questionnaire filled in and signed and by R. Avraham (Gáspár) Engel, rabbi of the yeshiva of Dunaszerdahely, signed by the rabbi of the province (apparently the signature of R. Hillel Weinberger, Av Beit Din of Dunaszerdahely), with the signatures and stamps of the community and community leaders.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. David Selzer, rabbi of the synagogue and Beit Midrash of Dunaszerdahely, signed by the rabbi of the province (apparently the signature of R. Hillel Weinberger, Av Beit Din of Dunaszerdahely), with the signatures and stamps of the community and community leaders.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Avraham Schopschowitz, Av Beit Din of Szászóka, signed by the rabbi of the province R. Chaim Yehudah Leib Goldenberg, Av Beit Din of Szolyva (Svaliava), and signed and stamped by the community leaders and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Shmuel Glück, Av Beit Din of Bodzásújlak, and signed by the community leader and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Yosef Glück, Av Beit Din of Garany-Szürnyeg, and signed and stamped by rabbi of the province R. Shmuel Glück, Av Beit Din of Bodzásújlak, signed by the community president and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Alexander Schwartz, dayan and posek in Szolotvina, signed and stamped by R. Chaim Yehudah Leib Goldenberg, Av Beit Din of Szolyva, and signed by the community president and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Moshe Dov Ber Weissberger, Av Beit Din of Nagytárkány, signed and stamped by the community president and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Shmuel Shmelka Ginsburg, Av Beit Din of Aranyosmeggyes, signed by the community leader and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Meir Weiss, rabbi in Oroszvég, signed by R. Ben Tzion Weiss, Av Beit Din of Oroszvég, signed by the community leader and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Nachum Perl, shochet in Tiszabogdány, signed and stamped by R. Shlomo Spitzer, Av Beit Din of Tiszabogdány, signed by the community leader R. Shmuel Rosenberg and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Moshe Yaakov Beek, Av Beit Din of Alsóapsa, signed by the community leader and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in on behalf of by R. Tzvi (Herman) Friedman, Av Beit Din of Kovácsrét, signed by R. Shlomo Kahn and with the community's stamp.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Aladár Roth, Av Beit Din of Bercsényifalva, with the community's stamp, and signed by the provincial community leader (R. Shmuel Yehudah Steiger?) and with the community stamp of Nagyberezna.
• Questionnaire filled in, signed and stamped by R. Yosef Yosovitch, Av Beit Din of Beregpálfalva (Volovytsya), signed by the rabbi of the Ilosva province (R. Moshe Wertzberger, Av Beit Din of Ilosva?), signed by the community leader and with the community's stamp.
• Two questionnaires filled in, signed and stamped by R. Shmuel Landau, Av Beit Din of Nagybocskó, signed by the president of the community and with the community's stamps.
• Questionnaire filled in and signed by R. Yaakov Seidenfeld, Av Beit Din of Gyertyánliget, signed and stamped by rabbi of the province R. Shmuel Landau, Av Beit Din of Nagybocskó, and signed by the president of the community and with the community's stamps.
• Questionnaire filled in and signed by R. Yosef Wiesel, rabbi in Nagybocskó, with his signature and that of rabbi of the province R. Shmuel Landau, Av Beit Din of Nagybocskó, and signed by the president of the community and with the community's stamps.
The collection additionally includes forms (kérdőív) from the authority of the military authorities filled out in the year 1942, including questionnaires filled out by:
• R. Aharon Tzvi Kestenbaum, dayan and posek in Tiszaújlak;
• R. Azriel Yehudah Leibowitz, Av Beit Din of Hajdúhadház;
• R. Avraham Eliezer Citron, Av Beit Din of Hajdúdorog;
• R. Yehoshua Citron, Av Beit Din of Hajdúböszörmény;
• R. Yitzchak Schreiber (Sofer), rabbi in Nagyberezna;
• R. Wolf Strobach (Ze'ev Sheftel Henich Edelhaub), dayan and posek in Iszka;
• R. Yekutiel Yehudah (Zalman) Halpert, Av Beit Din of Hajdúnánás;
• R. Shlomo Zucker, Av Beit Din of Nagyhalász;
• R. Moshe Dov Ber son of R. Shalom Noach Landau, dayan and posek in Alsóverecke; • R. Menachem Mendel Lemberger, Av Beit Din of Polgár;
• R. David Gross, Av Beit Din of Tab;
• R. Shmuel Shmelka Ginsburg, Av Beit Din of Aranyosmeggyes.
[41] leaves. 34 cm. Overall good condition.
Forms for recording testimonies of the deaths of women and men – large collection of over 200 signed forms containing testimonies used to permit agunim and agunot to remarry after the Holocaust, signed by dayanim. [Various Hungarian cities, mostly Budapest, 1946-1959]. Hebrew, Yiddish and Hungarian.
Forms printed on both sides, with details filled in by hand and signed by the witnesses, and signed and sealed by the dayanim of the Beit Din, noting the place and the year. The forms were apparently printed on the authority of the special Beit Din established in Budapest after the Holocaust under the Central Bureau of Orthodox Communities in Hungary for the purpose of permitting agunim and agunot to remarry.
The present forms contain eyewitness testimonies of those who were murdered or perished in the German concentration camps and death camps. Each form contains various questions and clarifications on the origin and birthplace of the woman or man, the manner they were murdered and who witnessed it (questions such as where they knew each other from, where they were sent from and when, who was together with them, whether they brought children with them, which side they were sent to in Auschwitz, whether they saw them in the shower, whether they came back from labor, time of death, whether they were seen or said to have been burned).
Most of the present forms contain signatures of rabbis and heads of the Special Beit Din for Agunot in Budapest at various times: R. Yaakov Segal Leibowitz [the Rabbi of Kopish (Kaposvár)]; R. Yisrael Welz; R. Shimon Yisrael Posen, Av Beit Din of Sopron; R. Gavriel Yehudah Elowitz; R. Yehoshua Lerner, Av Beit Din of Volovets; R. Moshe Dov Wallner; R. Moshe Natan Schick; R. Yitzchak Tzvi Panet; R. Tzvi Hirsch HaKohen Katz, Av Beit Din of Derecske; R. Avraham Eliezer Citron, Av Beit Din of Hajdúdorog; R. Chananya Dov HaKohen; R. Naftali Rubenfeld; R. Shraga Shmuel Schnitzler; R. Asher Babad; R. Yehudah Aryeh Pilap; R. Yerachmiel Yaakov Dushinsky, Av Beit Din of Rákospalota; R. Moshe Blau; and more.
Some of the forms contain rabbis’ signatures and Beit Din stamps from various cities in Hungary, who collected the testimony in their cities, including: R. Yochanan Sofer, Av Beit Din of Eger (Erlau) and court; R. Moshe Stern, Av Beit Din of Debrecen [author of Be’er Moshe] and court; R. Betzalel Stern [author of BeTzel HaChochmah] and court in Pápa; R. Shemayah Schwartz, dayan and posek in Nyíregyháza and court; R. Shlomo Dov Wieder in Nyíregyháza; R. Chizkiyah Feivel Rosenberg, dayan and posek in Debrecen and court; R. Amram HaLevi Jungreis; R. Yaakov Tzvi HaLevi Jungreis, Av Beit Din in Fehérgyarmat and court; R. Amram Tzvi Grünwald, Rosh Av Beit Din of Ujhel (Sátoraljaújhely) and court; R. David Moskowitz, Av Beit Din of Bonyhád and court; R. Baruch Tzvi HaKohen Moskowitz and court in Paks; R. Tzvi Aryeh Schick, Av Beit Din of Sărmaș and court; R. Yekutiel Mordechai Schick, Av Beit Din of Miskolc, and Rosh Av Beit Din R. Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Grossman and court; R. Aharon Wieder, dayan and posek of Munkacs and court in Munkacs and Kleinwardein (Kisvárda); R. Yekutiel Yehudah Heilprin, Av Beit Din of Hajdúnánás; and many other rabbis signing as the dayanim who collected the testimonies – in addition to the signatures of the witnesses, including rabbis and famous persons.
Over 200 forms, printed and written on both sides. Most forms 29.5 cm. most in very good condition.
