Regulations of the Ashkenazi community of the London Great Synagogue. London: Yehuda Leib son of Alexander, 1791.
Hebrew and Yiddish, with words taken from English.
Glossary of titles on leaf [2], with detailed definition of each title mentioned in the regulations, to prevent misinterpretation of the regulations.
Handwritten corrections and glosses in several places (Hebrew and English).
[4], 3-16, 18-52, [7] leaves. 19 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor marginal open tears to title page and final leaf. Inscriptions. New binding.

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Collection of prayer and supplication booklets printed in London in 1938-1947 – prayers for the success of the British Army, prayers for the Jewish people, memorial prayers for Holocaust victims, and more. Hebrew and English.
16 booklets, including:
• The Nazi War, Prayer of Supplication. London, 1940.
• Order of Service on the Day of Fasting Mourning and Prayer for the Victims of Mass Massacres in Nazi Lands. London, 1942. Two copies.
• Memorial Prayer for the Victims of the Mass Massacres of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Lands. London, 1942.
• Pray for the Living! Remember the Dead!, a Passover Message by the Chief Rabbi. London, [1943].
• Order of Service for the National Day of Prayer and Dedication on the Fourth Anniversary of the Outbreak of Hostilities. London, 1943.
16 booklets. Size and condition vary.

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Letter handwritten and signed by Rebbe Ben Tzion Yehuda Leib Twersky of Hornosteipel (Hornostaypil). [Chicago, ca. 1940s].
The letter is addressed to his close acquaintance, the elderly R. Asher [Segal?]. The Rebbe sends condolences upon the passing of his wife and blesses him "may G-d help you come safely to be with us". Most of the letter relates to immigration attempts of Chassidim to the United States (probably WWII refugees).
Rebbe [Ben Tzion] Yehuda Leib Twersky (1867-1951), son of Rebbe Mordechai Dov of Hornosteipel and grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. A tremendous Torah scholar and Tzaddik, renowned for his great charitability. He succeeded his father as rebbe of Hornosteipel. Escaped to the United States from Belgium just before the Nazi invasion, and established his Beit Midrash in Chicago, where he continued his charitable activities.
[1] leaf, official stationery. 28 cm. Good condition. Stains. Some wear. Ink smudged in a few places. Folding marks. The letter is mounted on fabric for reinforcement.

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Large collection of rabbinical letters and various documents, for the release of agunot whose husbands were murdered by the Germans in ghettos and extermination camps. Hungary, ca. 1945-1950.
Beit Din rulings, marriage permits and various authorizations, signed by the dayanim of the special Beit Din for Agunot in Budapest (under the Central Bureau for Orthodox Jewry in Hungary): R. Yisrael Welcz, R. Yaakov Segal Leibowitz, R. Yehoshua Lerner Rabbi of Volovets', R. Tzvi Hirsh HaKohen, R. Avraham Eliezer Czitron, R. Chananyah Dov HaKohen and R. Yaakov Snyders.
Letters and testimonies signed by various rabbis in Hungary, Germany and other countries: R. Yechezkel Shraga Lipschitz Halberstam, rabbi of the DP camp in Bamberg, Germany (later rebbe of Stropkov in Jerusalem); R. Chaim Yaakov Rottenberg Rabbi in Antwerp, R. Meir Segal Landau and their Beit Din; R. Ze'ev Wolf Samet dayan and posek of Kleinwardein (Kisvárda) and his Beit Din; R. Moshe Stern dayan and posek of Debrecen; R. Yekutiel Yehuda Heilprin Rabbi of Nanash (Hajdúnánás) and his son R. Ben Tzion Heilprin; R. Yehoshua Lerner (Rabbi of Volovets'); R. Amram HaLevi Jungreis Rabbi of Gyöngyös (Dindish); R. Moshe Natan Schick; R. Yaakov Shraga Heiman of Tokey (Tokaj); R. Menachem Tzvi son of R. Chaim Eliyahu [Neiman, disciple of the Kedushat Yom Tov]; R. Mordechai Grünfeld of Teglash (Téglás) and his Beit Din; R. Moshe Mordechai Pollak Rabbi of Vadkert (Soltvadkert) and his Beit Din; R. Tzvi HaKohen Rabbi of Derecske; R. Naftali Elimelech Grünfeld and his Beit Din in Mátészalka; R. Shlomo Dov Wieder of Niredhaz (Nyíregyháza); R. Simcha Bunem of Ujhel (Sátoraljaújhely) and his Beit Din; R. Yoshe Katz Rabbi of Makova (Makó) and his Beit Din; and more.
One notable letter was to be sent to many rabbis, with the purpose of obtaining a Heter Me'ah Rabbanim. The letter outlines various factors that allow the remarriage of men whose wives disappeared during the war (the letter was written in October 1945 – six months after the end of the war). The letter is signed by 11 rabbis and dayanim: R. Yaakov Segal Leibowitz; R. Avraham Gutenplan Rabbi of Tinnye (author of Keter Kehunah); R. Elazar Shapiro, head of the Beit Din of [Kleinwardein?]; R. Mordechai son of Chaim Yehuda [Hoffman], dayan and posek in Berettyóújfalu; R. Meir Lamet Rabbi of the Tarnów Geulei Tzion community; R. Yaakov Tzvi Katz Rabbi of Soboslo (Hajdúszoboszló; author of Leket HaKemach HaChadash); R. David Gross Rabbi in Tab; R. Tzvi Aryeh Schick Rabbi in Sharvar (Sárvár); R. Yehoshua Lerner Rabbi of Volovets'; R. Yekutiel Tzvi Schick, head of the Miskolc Beit Din; R. Yaakov Tzvi Jungreis Rabbi of Feherd'rmat (Fehérgyarmat).
46 signed letters, some on official stationery and others on regular paper. Seven permits written on verso of photograph of permit recipients. Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.

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Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin and Tractate Shavuot, with the classic commentators. Vilna: Widow and Brothers Romm, 1887.
Lengthy inscription in pencil on the front endpaper, in which the owner of this Talmud volume, a Jew from Czernowitz, describes the trials and tribulations he endured during WWI, beginning from his expulsion from Czernowitz, Bukovina far into Russia, his arrest, the danger he was in, the fellow Jewish exiles he met, and more. The inscription concludes with a list of the tractates he studied during his wanderings. The present tractates – Sanhedrin and Shavuot, were studied upon his return to Czernowitz in 1917.
Other inscriptions on the front endpapers.
124; 32; 50; 24; 60; 5; 8; 33; 18; 5 leaves. 40 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears to several leaves. Worming. Original leather binding, damaged.

Torah Study Under Perilous Conditions – During Expulsion and Imprisonment in WWI
The present Talmud volume contains a unique historic documentation from WWI, first hand testimony of a Jew from Czernowitz who was arrested, presumably during the Russian conquest, in the village of Prilipcze, Bukovina, in Adar 1915, and deported deep into Russia. He describes the difficulties he endured, including arrest and even danger of death. Eventually he was brought to Penza, Russia, where he was released. In Penza, he met some six hundred Jews who had also been exiled from Bukovina and Galicia. He stayed there for over a year, until he was granted permission to return to Czernowitz, which he reached in Kislev 1916. He found it conquered, empty of its inhabitants and ransacked. His sons and daughters were not there anymore, and he remained there alone. Throughout this difficult period, the author studied and completed eight tractates, including one which he studied in prison in Surazh (Chernihiv Oblast, Russia), as he records at the end of his inscription.
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