Auction 105: Rabbinic Autograph Letters & Passover Haggadot.
By Kestenbaum & Company
Apr 4, 2024
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States

The auction commences with a first edition of the Segulah-book "Raziel HaMalach" (Lot 1); followed by books that were owned by significant rabbis: 


R. Shlomo Ganzfried (Lot 5); The Aruch Hashulchan (Lot 6); R. Meir Shapira of Lublin (Lot 68)


The most valuable lot offered is a Sefer that was personally owned by, and has a long personal inscription in the hand of, R. Chaim Volozhiner (Lot 4).


The auction contains many excellent offerings of Autograph Letters including:


The first Rebbe of Sadigura, R. Avraham Ya'akov (Lot 13); The Chofetz Chaim (Lots 17-20); The Ohr Same’ach (Lot 41); The Kesav Sofer (Lot 58); Reb Chaim Brisker (Lot 59); The Lubavitcher Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka and her sister (Lots 50-51); and dozens more of such letters.


Autograph manuscripts of note are those from R. Menachem Mendel of Shklov (Lot 9A); The Tiferes Yisroel (Lot 40); and a 14th-century Ramba'n manuscript (Lot 9).


As per annual tradition, this pre-Pesach auction features a wide selection of Passover Hagadot:


The rare, the exotic and the curious; with examples from 1545 through until 2008.


Among particularly Early examples: Lot 87 (Venice, 1545); Lot 88 (Riva di Trento, 1561) and Lot 95 (Salonika, 1569).


Beautifully illustrated Hagadoth include: Lot 93 (Venice, 1740); Lot 85 (India, 1874) and Lot 115 (The Avner Moriah Hagadah).


Historically significant Hagadoth include Lot 72 (American/Canadian/Anglo-related) and many examples from Germany, India, Jerusalem; as well as first edition Hagadah commentaries by the Vilna Gaon (Lot 96), R. Ya'akov Emden (Lot 78); and ending with several facsimile editions. 



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LOT 16:

BLOCH, YOSEF YEHUDA LEIB.

(Rosh Yeshiva in Telshe ...


Start price:
$ 400
Estimated price :
$400 - $600
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On the full lot's price and commission
04/04/2024 at Kestenbaum & Company
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BLOCH, YOSEF YEHUDA LEIB.

(Rosh Yeshiva in Telshe (Telšiai, Lithuania), 1860-1930). Typed Letter Signed written in Hebrew on letterhead to Rabbi Yoseph Chaim Sonnenfeld (“grandfather of the Land of Israel.”).


Concerning monies collected for the benefit of Kupat Rabbi Meir Baal Haness, for the needy of Jerusalem.


One page.

Telz, 22nd Mar-Cheshvan, 1929.


R. Yoseph Yehuda Leib Bloch studied in Kelm under his future father-in-law R. Eliezer Gordon (1841–1910), before transferring to Volozhin. In 1910, he succeeded his father-in-law (aka R. Laizer Telzer) as Rosh Yeshiva of Telz. He in turn was succeeded by his older son R. Avraham Yitzchak as Rosh Yeshiva of Telz in Lithuania. His younger son, R. Eliyahu Meir Bloch, served as Rosh Yeshiva of Telz in Cleveland, Ohio, upon the Yeshiva’s transfer to American soil as a result of dislocation due to WWII.