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Lot #    22916
Auction End Date    3/3/2009 11:02:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Dov Ber Abramovich
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר דוב בער אבראמאוויץ
Author    [Ms. - Community]
City    New York
Publication Date    1897
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [2] pp., 273:210 mm., age and ink staining, ink on stationary, Ashkenazic script, signed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description
   Letter by R. Dov Ber Abramovich (1860-1926), Rabbi of the Suvalk synagogue in New York. R. Dov Ber was born in teh Lita and emigrated to Jerusalem at age 12. He was appointed by R. Samuel Salant as a district rabbi in Jerusalem at a very young age. In 1892 he came to the United States where he served for a time in Philadelphia then at Anshei Suvalk of New York. An erudite scholar he wrote several works and constantly fought Reform and the like. He returned to Erez Israel in 1921.
          
Reference
Description
   Enc. Zion. haDatit col 21-23
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica