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Lot #    14987
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 10:32:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Aaron Gordon
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר אהרן גארדאן
Author    [Ms. - Women]
City    New York
Publication Date    1902
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2] pp., 203:125 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on paper, neat Ashkenazic script, signed, stamped and dated. Original envelope.
          
Detailed
Description		    Addressed to R. Pollak in Budapest, R. Gordon is seeking to prevent a young lady, in Budapest, from becoming an Agunah by securing a divorce from the husband in New York. The husband is prepared to travel to the South, where writes R. Gordon "he will be lost to the wife and nation of Israel."

R. Aaron b. Meir Gordon (1845-1922) was born in Miadziol, Vilna Province. He was an erudite scholar, known as the "Miadziol illu", he immigrated to America where he settled and conducted a Bet Din on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Several of his works have been published.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
Other:    Hungary
  
Subject
Other:    Women
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica