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Bidding Information
Lot #    14754
Auction End Date    6/13/2006 12:32:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Joseph Dov Fain
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר יוסף דוב פאין
Author    [Ms. - Women]
City    Portland, Oregon
Publication Date    1929
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 277:215 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on stationary, Ashkenazic script, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Submitting a donation of $57.00 to Jerusalem yeshiva collected by the Ladies Auxiliary, chaired by the Rebbetzin (rabbi's wife). The letter list the women and their respective donations. The sum was a little fortune for the period. R. Joseph Dov b. Isaac Fain (b. 1884) was born in a suburb of Minsk, studied in the Telz, Volozhin, Slutsk Yeshivot and ordained by prominent leaders of the generation. At the outbreak of WWI he left for Portland where he distinguished himself in the rabbinate for half a century.
          
Reference
Description		    Toldot Anshei Shem p. 93-94
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Women
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica