Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Collection of Telegrams Addressed to the Union of Orthodox Rabbis - She'erit Hapletah in Europe and Shanghai - 1940s - Rabbi Weissmandl, Rabbi Herzog, Rabbi Ashkenazi and Others
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Seven telegrams addressed to the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (UOR), from various public figures and organizations working on behalf of She'erit Hapletah. 1945-1946.
• Lengthy telegram (9 pages) from HIJEFS (aid organization for Jewish refugees in foreign countries). Montreux, Switzerland, 5th October 1945. German.
The telegram pertains to the decree against Orthodox communities in Slovakia, and contains a request from R. Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl that the UOR in America sent a telegram on this topic to Edvard Beneš, president of Czechoslovakia (the text of the telegram to be sent to the president is provided in this telegram, along with the directive of R. Weissmandl to send it as is).
• Lengthy telegram (3 pages) from the chief rabbi of Israel, R. Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Herzog, to R. Yisrael HaLevi Rosenberg, president of the UOR, regarding the religious needs of Torah-observant Holocaust refugees in Sweden. Jerusalem, 2nd October 1946. English.
• Telegrams from R. Meir Ashkenazi (rabbi of the Shanghai Jewish community) and from the Vaad Hacashrut Bney Yeshiboth in Shanghai with urgent requests for shechitah knives. Shanghai, November 1945. English.
• Telegram from the London Beit Din, requesting confirmation of information about a man who perished in the Holocaust, in order to release his agunah. London, 17th April 1946.
• Telegram from the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany - invitation to a She'erit Hapletah conference taking place in the Munich city hall on 20th January 1946.
• Telegram presumably sent by a representative of the UOR in the DP camps in German, with a brief report on the refugees' difficult situation. Nuremberg, December 1945.
Enclosed: • Telegram from Gedaliah Bublick, to Emanuel Celler, member of the United States House of Representatives, containing a request that the chief rabbis of Israel, R. Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Herzog and R. Ben Tzion Uziel addressed to the UOR, that they move heaven and earth to get the United States to intervene on behalf of European Jewry. 2nd October 1943. • "Substitute telegram" in support of She'erit Hapletah aid organization.
[7] telegrams, on Western Union and R.C.A. telegram forms. Up to 21X18 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor wear. Creases and tears. Margins of one telegram trimmed. Inscriptions and ink stamps.
• Lengthy telegram (9 pages) from HIJEFS (aid organization for Jewish refugees in foreign countries). Montreux, Switzerland, 5th October 1945. German.
The telegram pertains to the decree against Orthodox communities in Slovakia, and contains a request from R. Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl that the UOR in America sent a telegram on this topic to Edvard Beneš, president of Czechoslovakia (the text of the telegram to be sent to the president is provided in this telegram, along with the directive of R. Weissmandl to send it as is).
• Lengthy telegram (3 pages) from the chief rabbi of Israel, R. Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Herzog, to R. Yisrael HaLevi Rosenberg, president of the UOR, regarding the religious needs of Torah-observant Holocaust refugees in Sweden. Jerusalem, 2nd October 1946. English.
• Telegrams from R. Meir Ashkenazi (rabbi of the Shanghai Jewish community) and from the Vaad Hacashrut Bney Yeshiboth in Shanghai with urgent requests for shechitah knives. Shanghai, November 1945. English.
• Telegram from the London Beit Din, requesting confirmation of information about a man who perished in the Holocaust, in order to release his agunah. London, 17th April 1946.
• Telegram from the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany - invitation to a She'erit Hapletah conference taking place in the Munich city hall on 20th January 1946.
• Telegram presumably sent by a representative of the UOR in the DP camps in German, with a brief report on the refugees' difficult situation. Nuremberg, December 1945.
Enclosed: • Telegram from Gedaliah Bublick, to Emanuel Celler, member of the United States House of Representatives, containing a request that the chief rabbis of Israel, R. Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Herzog and R. Ben Tzion Uziel addressed to the UOR, that they move heaven and earth to get the United States to intervene on behalf of European Jewry. 2nd October 1943. • "Substitute telegram" in support of She'erit Hapletah aid organization.
[7] telegrams, on Western Union and R.C.A. telegram forms. Up to 21X18 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor wear. Creases and tears. Margins of one telegram trimmed. Inscriptions and ink stamps.
The Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah – Letters, Documents and Books
The Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah – Letters, Documents and Books