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Bidding Information
Lot #    25902
Auction End Date    2/16/2010 10:49:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Three letters by R. Mordecai Savitsky, Chief Rabbi
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר מרדכי סאוויצקי, אב'ד באסטאן
Author    [Ms.]
City    Boston
Publication Date    1950's
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [3] pp., 281:214 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on stationary, Ashkenazic script, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Mordecai b. Joseph Savitsky (1911-1991), authority on Talmud and Jewish law. R. Savitsky was born in Lida, a suburb of Vilna, and educated in Lithuanian Yeshivot. He wrote 22 books on the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. His first volume, "Bikurei Mordecai," was published in 1930, when he was 19 years old. He immigrated to the United States in 1939. From 1939 to 1984, he was affiliated with Chevra Shaas in Boston. He was honorary president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States.
          
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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