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Lot #
26083
Auction End Date
2/16/2010 12:19:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Letter by R. Moshe Blau cosigned by several rabbis
Title (Hebrew)
כתב מה'ר משה בלוי ועוד כמה רבנים
Author
[Ms. - Community]
City
Jerusalem
Publication Date
1924
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
[1] p., 237:218 mm., light age staining, creased and split on folds, ink on paper, neat Ashkenazic script, signed by five rabbis and dated.
Detailed
Description
R. Moshe Blau (1885–1946) was a leader of Agudat Israel and a brother of Amram Blau. Blau, who was born in Jerusalem, directed the Agudat Israel office there from 1924 until his death. He served as a member of the movement's world executive and edited its weekly Kol Yisrael ("Voice of Israel"). From 1933 to 1945 he headed the independent, ultra-Orthodox Edah Haredit (Orthodox community). Despite the community's segregation policy, he cooperated with yishuv leaders in representing Jewish interests in dealings with the Mandate government. Blau represented Agudat Israel before various British and international commissions which dealt with the Palestine problem. In 1946, while on a rescue mission to Jewish survivors of the war, Blau fell ill and died in Messina. He was taken to Jerusalem for burial. He wrote Ammuda di-Nehora ("Column of Light," 1932), a biography of Rabbi Y. H. Sonnenfeld, and Al Homotayikh Yerushalayim ("Upon thy Walls, O Jerusalem," 1946), autobiographical notes and memoirs.
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Period
20th Century:
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Location
Israel:
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Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Letters:
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