1. Request for a Certificate for the Teacher Yisrael Shlomo Gordon, Required to Obtain a Residency Permit in Lithuania
Vilna, 1921.
Entirely in his own handwriting and signature, on official letterhead.
2. Request for a Certificate for Nachman Lifshitz from the Mir Yeshiva in Poltava, on Behalf of the Vilna Community, to Obtain a Residency Permit in Vilna.
Vilna, 1921.
Entirely in his own handwriting and signature.
The Mir Yeshiva, under the leadership of the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, relocated from Poltava to Vilna during World War I.
The famous Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzenski (1863-1940), son of Rabbi David Shlomo – Rabbi of Iwie and son-in-law of (I) Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Grodzenski of Vilna (son-in-law of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter) and (II) Rabbi Meir Atlas of Shavel. Appointed Rabbi in Vilna in 1885 and gradually became recognised as the principal rabbinical leader of Lithuanian Jewry and one of the greatest Torah personalities of the pre-WWII era. Author of Achiezer.
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