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Bidding Information
Lot #    22799
Auction End Date    3/3/2009 10:03:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Meir Ashkenazi
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר מאיר אשכנזי
Author    [Ms. - Habad - Shanghai]
City    Brooklyn
Publication Date    1951
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2] pp., 278:214 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on stationary, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Wonderful letter of recommendation for a young groom who had been held captive by the Japanese by R. Meir b. Shnuer Zalman Ashkenazi (d. 1954), rabbi of Habad in Shanghai. The rabbi informs the future father in law that he desires his name mentioned under the Hupah, as the groom has much merit in the heavens. The letter also discuses the state of events in Shanghai during the Holocaust and Japanese aggression.
          
Reference
Description		    Ozar ha-Rabonim 12780
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
Other:    Shanghai
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica