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Bidding Information
Lot #    18327
Auction End Date    7/10/2007 10:01:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Final Letter by R. Abraham Mordecai Alter of Gur
Title (Hebrew)    מכתב האחרון או קרוב לאחרון מהאדמו'ר מגור זצ'ל
Author    [Ms. - Hasidim]
City    Jerusalem
Publication Date    1948
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 98:121 mm., light age staining, ink on verso of envelope, signed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Two lines of text, written and transcribed within the last few days of his life, by R. Abraham Mordecai Alter (1866–1948), last of the Gur Dynasty Rebbes in Poland. Under his leadership Gur Hasidism reached the height of its influence. He restored the recitation of morning prayer to the regular time and enjoined a break during the Sabbath service for public study. A lover of order and precision, he gave Gur Hasidim an organized framework. In the period preceding the Holocaust Abraham Mordecai was the most prominent figure in European Orthodox Jewry and one of the founders of Agudat Israel. Particularly sympathetic toward young people and concerned with their needs, he was instrumental in establishing schools and youth organizations. As well as being a scholar, he was an ardent bibliophile. He visited Erez Israel many times and acquired property there. On the outbreak of World War II he escaped from Gur to Warsaw, and finally to Erez Israel in 1940. During and after the Holocaust he was active in rescue work and in the material and spiritual rehabilitation of refugees. He died on Shavuot at the height of the siege of Jerusalem in 1948 and was buried in the precincts of Yeshivah Sefat Emet which he had founded.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica