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Lot #    21223
Auction End Date    8/12/2008 11:00:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Chaim Glotzer
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר חיים גלאטצער
Author    [Ms.]
City    Newark, New Jersey
Publication Date    1930
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 280:216 mm., light age staining, ink on stationary, Ashkenazic script, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Chaim Glotzer was born in the town of Kobrin a suburb of Grodno. His family was of Chasidic descent. He studied in the great academies of Lomza and Slabodka and was considered a top student of the Rosh Yeshiva, R. Moshe Mordichai Epstein.

R. Glotzer was ordained by the leading Rabbanim of the generation, among them R. Yosef Zundel Salant and R. Meir Atlas of Kobrin. After serving in several mid-size communities in Eastern Europe, R. Glotzer settled in Newark, NJ were he joined the Agudath HaRabonim, Vaad HaRabonim of New Jersey, and the Vaad Harabonim of Newark. He was also a founding member of Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch of Newark. His only known work, Pri Hayyim, remains in manuscript. R. Glotzer partook in the march at Washington in 1943. He passed away on Purim eve 1949.
          
Reference
Description		    Toldot Anshe Shem, Rand p. 20
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica