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Lot #    15592
Auction End Date    9/5/2006 11:56:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Jacob Joseph
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר יעקב יוסף, אב'ד נ'י
Author    [Ms. - Community]
City    New York
Publication Date    1894
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2] pp., 250:205 mm., ink on paper, light age staining, creased on edges and folds, signed, stamped, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Letter addressed to R. Samuel Salant in Jerusalem with four lines of text and signed by R. Jacob Joseph (1848–1902), Chief Rabbi of New York. R. Jacob Joseph was born in Krozhe, province of Kovno. He studied at the yeshivah of Volozhin under R. Hirsch Leib Berlin and later under R. Israel Salanter, and served the communities of Vilon, Yurburg, and Zhagovy before becoming rabbi and Maggid of Vilna in 1883. Although a brilliant student of Talmud, R. Joseph was especially known for his homiletical talents. In 1888 he arrived in the U.S. to assume the post of chief rabbi of the Orthodox congregations of Russian Jews in New York City. As he was primarily concerned with the taxed supervision of meat kashrut, much opposition was expressed against him from sectors of the Jewish community who rejected this supervision and objected to the imposition of a kosher meat tax. Although an invalid from 1895, R. Joseph founded the Bes Sefer Yeshiva (1900), which was renamed the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Yeshiva upon his death. His works include the collection of sermons, Le-Veit Ya'akov (1888) and a contribution to the only issue of the publication Sefer Toledot Ya'akov Yosef be-New York (1889). His funeral procession, attended by estimates in tens of thousands of Jews, occasioned a riot as workmen of the R. Hoe & Co. factory on the East Side pelted the procession with nuts and bolts. Many mourners were injured by the assailants and police.
          
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica