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Bidding Information
Lot #    19776
Auction End Date    1/8/2008 12:45:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Joshua David Powarski of Ponovich
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר יהושע דוד פוברסקי
Author    [Ms. - Holocaust]
City    Vilna
Publication Date    1940
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [1] p. plus envelope, 201:126 mm., light age staining, ink on paper, neat Ashkenazic script, half dated, signed.
          
Detailed
Description
   Letter by R. Joshua David b. Shalom Powarski (1902-1999) Rosh Yeshiva in Ponovich. The letter written at the height of the Holocaust to the U.S. seeks assistance for victims. R. Powarski was born in Lyuban and came to Erez Israel in 1941 shortly after this letter was posted. An erudite talmudic scholar he wrote Yeshu'ot David (several volumes) halakhic novellae and expositions to the Shulhan Arukh.
          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica