Printed leaf – notice on the kosher certification given to wine produced in Fiume, Italy (today: Rijeka, Croatia), signed by great rebbes and rabbis of Hungary and Galicia. Sighet: Wieder, 10 Tevet (January 1), 1901.

The notice relates to the kosher status of wine imported from Fiume, Italy (today: Rijeka, Croatia), and warns to buy only from vendors with a kosher certification signed by the two supervisors – R. Moshe Ze'ev Abraham of Satmar, and R. Moshe Yitzchak Levi of Grosswardein (Oradea). [In order to determine the kosher status of wine imported from the distant Fiume, Italy, several rabbinical conferences were held, on which see Responsa Arugat HaBosem (Orach Chaim 94-95) and Igrot Shapirin (pp. 160-163).]

The notice is signed by twenty-two of the greatest Rebbes and halachic decisors of Hungary and Galicia at the time: the Kedushat Yom Tov, Rebbe of Sighet; Rebbe Moshe Panet of Deyzh; the Darchei Teshuvah of Munkacs; Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the first) of Bobov; Rebbe Moshe Halberstam of Bardejov; the Maharsham of Berezhany; the Arugat HaBosem of Khust; the Zichron Yehudah of Satmar; the Harei Besamim of Stryj; R. Avraham Menachem Mendel HaLevi Steinberg, Av Beit Din of Brody; R. Yeshayah Silberstein, Av Beit Din of Vác; and others. On the reverse side of the notice are Torah inscriptions handwritten by R. David Sperber of Brașov [from his youth].

[1] leaf. 30 cm. Good-fair condition. Folds and creases. Stains and wear. Small tears and open tears to margins (affecting name of printer).