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Decree by the Va'ad haRabbonim of Warsaw, Warsaw 1938

כתב בית דין מועד הרבנים לעדת ווארשא - Manuscript

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  • Lot Number 41979
  • Title (English) Decree by the Va'ad haRabbonim of Warsaw
  • Title (Hebrew) כתב בית דין מועד הרבנים לעדת ווארשא
  • Note Manuscript
  • City Warsaw
  • Publication Date 1938
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500
  • Item # 893133
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Description

Physical Description

[1] p., 290:195mm., light age staining, creased and split on folds, typewritten on stationary, signed in ink, and dated.

 

Detail Description

Decree in a Din Torah signed by:

R. Noah b. Arye Loeb Rogosinsky (d. 1943), Menahel of Yeshivot in Warsaw and served on the Bet Din for many years. He was murdered by the Nazis.

R. Isaac Meir b. Moshe Aaron Kanal (d. 1942) rabbi of Bloshki (near Warsaw) and served on the Bet Din for many years. R. Kanal also served as Vice Chairman of the Agudat Israel in Poland. He was murdered by the Nazis.

R. Elijah Fetman, member of the Bet Din.

R. David b. Mordecai Zevi Kahana-Shapira (1901-1971), was a student of the Shem Mi-Shmuel of Suchachuv, member of the Bet Din. His family perished in the Holocaust while he survived in a labor-camp. R. David was the son in law of R. Chaim Yehoshua Gutschecter, a memeber of the Va'ad. After the war he served as rabbi of Fuerth, later in Jerusalem.

and the Secretary R. Jacob Gesundheit.

The Va'ad haRabbonim of Warsaw was founded at the end of the 19th century as the central rabbinical leadership forum of Warsaw. It's membership sported the Who's Who of Polish rabbinical leaders. The body consisted of no less than 10 rabbis at any given time culled from Hasidim and Mitnagdim. In addition to judicial cases its members represented Polish Jewry in international Jewish organizations (i.e. Agudah) and served in government when required.

 

Hebrew Description

חותמים הרבנים:  ה"ר נח ראגאזינצקי, ה"ר יצחק מאיר קאנאל, ה"ר אלי' פעטמאן, ה"ר דוד כהנא-שפירא, המזכיר ה"ר יעקב געזונדהייט

 

Reference Description

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org