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Bidding Information
Lot #    24050
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 11:26:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Pinchas David Horowitz
Title (Hebrew)    מכתב מה'ר פנחס דוד הלוי הורוויץ, אדמו'ר מבאסטאן
Author    [Ms. - Hasidim]
City    Jerusalem
Publication Date    1934
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 273:216 mm., ink on stationary, light age staining, signed in ink.
          
Detailed
Description		    Letter written by the Rebbitzen in Hebrew and signed by the Rebbe and Rebbitzen in English. R. Pinchas David Horowitz, the first Bostoner Rebbe, a scion of the R. Shmelke of Nikolsburg, first arrived in Boston in 1915 from the Israel (Palestine) via Europe. Shortly after his arrival, R. Pinchas David was accepted as Rebbe by the Jewish community of Boston. In 1939, the Rebbe moved to Brooklyn, and opened the Bostoner Beis Medrash of Williamsburg. After his death in 1941, his son Rav Moshe succeeded him. In 1943, Rav Levi Yitzchok became another Bostoner Rebbe and built the New England Chassidic Center.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, English
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica