30 letters and documents, pertaining to R. Shalom Shachna Meisel, one of the directors of the "Tachkemoni" Talmud Torah in Bialystok, and to members of his family. Bialystok, Poland and elsewhere, ca. 1901 to 1935. Hebrew, Yiddish, German.
Collection of letters and documents, from the estate of R. Shalom Shachna Meisel of Bialystok. Including: ● 15 letters and drafts handwritten by S.S. Meisel (some of them lengthy; including letters to his daughter Malka and her husband R. Chaim Bernstein in Jerusalem, and a greeting for their marriage). ● A letter handwritten by R. Yitzchak Meisel, R. Shalom Shachna's father [son-in-law of the well-known Rabbi Aryeh Leib Yelin author of "Yeffe Enayim", a relative of R. Eliyahu Chaim Meisel Rabbi of Lodz]. ● A lengthy letter handwritten by Rabbi Dr. Gedalya Rosenman (who later served as one of the heads of the Judenrat of the Bialystok Ghetto) and two letters addressed to Rabbi Dr. Rosenman. ● A letter and postcard handwritten by Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Yaffeh [1853-1927, a well-known Torah scholar from Brisk, the son of Rabbi Mordechai Gimpel Yaffeh of the dignitaries of the Brisk community]. ● A recommendation letter, attesting to the virtues of R. Shalom Shachna Meisel, addressed to the heads of the worldwide "HaMizrachi" in Jerusalem, by the heads of the "HaMizrachi" branch in Bialystok (1936) and signed by Rabbi Heilperin of Bialystok and the leaders of "HaMizrachi" in the town (one typewritten copy and one handwritten copy). ● "Memorandum" printed after the foundation of the "Tachkemoni" School in Bialystok, calling to donate to the institution (one in Hebrew and the other in Yiddish). ● And additional items.
Size and condition vary. Some of the items in fair-poor condition, with stains, damp damage, creases and tears (especially to edges).

Geschichte Der Juden in Stadt und Land Salzburg, von den frühesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart [The History of the Jews in the City and State of Salzburg, from the earliest times to the present], by Adolph Altman. Berlin: Louis Lamm, 1912. German and some Hebrew. First edition.
The first part of the dissertation submitted by Rabbi Adolph Altman to the Faculty of Philosophy at the Bern University in Switzerland, reviewing the history of the Jews of Salzburg until their deportation in 1498.
With four plates: two plates depicting tombstones in the Jewish cemetery in Friesach from the 13th–14th centuries and two plates depicting the interior of the ancient Jewish synagogue of Salzburg.
In 1913 and 1930, respectively, two additional parts of the dissertation were printed, dealing with the history of the Jews of Salzburg up until the early 20th century.
Rabbi Adolph (Avraham) Altman was born in 1879 in Unsdorf (today Huncovce, Slovakia). He studied six years at the yeshiva of Rabbi Shmuel Rosenberg in Unsdorf and later at the Pressburg Yeshiva (and was even ordained as a rabbi by the head of the Pressburg Yeshiva, Rabbi Simcha Bunim Sofer, author of the "Shevet Sofer"). In Pressburg, Altman discovered Zionism and started delivering lectures on Zionism at yeshiva students' meetings. In addition, he started writing in Jewish journals in German. During the years 1907-1914, he served as the rabbi of the Salzburg community and during World War I served as a military rabbi in the Austrian Army. In 1920, he received a rabbinic position in Trier, Germany and served as a rabbi there until 1938, when he moved to Holland. In March 1943, he and his wife were deported to Amsterdam and in May 1944 were sent to the Auschwitz Extermination Camp, where they perished.
68 pp. + [4] plates, 21 cm. Good condition. Tears and minor blemishes to edges of several leaves. Unopened sheets. New binding and endpapers, with original cover laid down (torn at edges and incomplete). Ex-library copy (stamp to last page, pen notation and paper sleeve to first blank page).
Not in NLI.