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Bidding Information
Lot #    6333
Auction End Date    12/16/2003 4:22:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Abraham Judah Schwartz
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר אברהם יודא הכהן שווארטץ
Author    [Ms.]
City    Kolta
Publication Date    1930
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Postcard, 90:140 mm., usual light browning, ink on postcard, neat Ashkenazic script, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Letter to R. Aaron Mendel ha-Kohen in Cairo regarding his unsuccessful attempt to reinstitute rabbinical ordination for a High Court of Judges. R. Abraham Judah b. Isaac Meir Schwartz (b. 1882) was a prominent Rabbi in Hungary, among the communities he served in are Hayves, in 1909 he was appointed rabbi in Maroshewiz, 1930 in Toplitza. His name appears in many Hungarian responsa and appears to have been a talmudical scholar of note. He perished in the Holocaust.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica