Autograph letter of recommendation, signed and stamped by R. Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapira, on behalf of the student Avigdor Zelmanowitz, who studied in his yeshiva. Malech, 1901.
R. Shlomo Zalman Sender Kahane Shapira (1851-1923), a great-grandson of R. Chaim of Volozhin, was regarded as one of the pre-eminent Lithuanian Torah scholars of his day, and was held in high esteem by contemporary rabbis and heads of yeshivot. He studied in the famed Volozhin Yeshiva, where he was a disciple of the Netziv and R. Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Beit HaLevi. In 1885, he was chosen as Rabbi of Malech where he established his yeshiva Anaf Etz Chaim [named after the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Volozhin, which closed at that time], which became one of the prominent yeshivot in Lithuania. In 1903, he became rabbi of Krynki and moved his yeshiva there as well. In 1921, he moved to Eretz Israel and settled in Jerusalem, where he passed away a short while later. The two volumes of Chidushei HaGarzas were printed from his novellae (Machon Yerushalayim, 1993).
21 cm. Good condition. Stains, folding creases.