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Lot #    24853
Auction End Date    10/27/2009 10:10:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Hirsch Olshwang
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר צבי יהודה אלשוואנג
Author    [Ms.]
City    Chicago
Publication Date    1928
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 260:215 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on stationary, signed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Hirsch Olshwang (b. 1873), Rosh Yeshiva in Telz, Cleveland and rabbi of Congregation Hevrah Mishne Torah for 25 years. He was born in Luknik suburb of Kovna, and studied in Lithuanian yeshivot. Among his teachers were R. Eliezer Gordon in Telz who also ordained him, R. Simeon in Volozhin, R. Joseph Leib in Kelm. In his later years he emigrated to Erez Israel where he passed on.
          
Reference
Description		    Toldot Anshei Shem pp. 3-4
        
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica