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Bidding Information
Lot #    18142
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 11:11:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by the Admor of Vishnitz
Title (Hebrew)    מכתב מהאדמו'ר מוויזניץ זצ'ל
Author    [Ms. - Hasidim]
City    Vishnitz
Publication Date    1910
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [1] p., 159:137 mm., ink on paper, damp stained, margins neatly extended, small loss in margins, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description
   A complete letter in the hand of R. Israel b. Baruch Hager (1860–1938), Admor of Vishnitz. R. Israel was very popular and had thousands of hasidic followers. He founded a big yeshivah called Bet Israel and moved to Grosswardein (Hung. Nagyvarad) which became a center of Hasidism in Hungary. His publications include Ahavat Yisrael (1943) and Or Yisrael (1938).
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Rumania
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica