Bidspirit auction | BLOCH, YOSEF YEHUDA LEIB. (Rosh

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.