Letter by R. Ezekiel Lipschitz, Kalish, Poland 1931
מכתב מה"ר יחזקאל ליבשיץ ראב"ד קאליש - Manuscript
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- Title (English) Letter by R. Ezekiel Lipschitz
- Title (Hebrew) מכתב מה"ר יחזקאל ליבשיץ ראב"ד קאליש
- Note Manuscript
- City Kalish, Poland
- Publication Date 1931
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- Item # 1417853
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Physical Description
[6] pp., 285:219 mm., creased on folds, ink on stationary, signed, and dated.
Detail Description
Letter in Hebrew and German concerning various communal declartions by R. Ezekiel Lipschitz (c. 1850-1932) who served from 1902 until his death as Rabbi of Kalish and head of the Yeshiva Committee. R. Lipschitz was also the President of the Union of Rabbis of Poland, an organization including 800 rabbis and representing 4,000,000 Jews. He visited the United States im 1926 to attend and address the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of American and Canada at their convention to be held at Far Rockaway, New York. He brought with him the names of 18,000 Polish Jewish women who were “agunoth,” as their husbands had been lost track of during World War I. R. Lipschitz who spoke English and French fluently, and authored at least twelve books in resposa and novellae was seeking halakhic approval to ease the plight of the affected women.