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Bidding Information
Lot #    7810
Auction End Date    8/17/2004 1:38:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Isaac Sher
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר חיים יצחק אייזיק שער, ר'י כנסת ישראל
Author    [Ms.]
City    Slobodka
Publication Date    1936
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 296:225 mm., typewritten letter on stationary, light age staining, creased on folds, signed in ink, dated, and sealed.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Isaac Sher (d. 1952) was the son-in-law of R. Nathan Zavi Finkel the founder of the world renown Slabodka Yeshiva, Keneset lsrael. He appointed R. Sher Rosh ha-Yeshiva in 1909 as a young man. The yeshivah under his leadership, continued its activities until June 23, 1941, when the Nazi invasion was imminent. Although most of the faculty and students perished during the Holocaust, the Slobodka yeshivah was reopened in Bene-Berak following the conclusion of the war. R. Sher passed on in Bnei Brak.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica