Bidspirit auction | JOFEN (YOFFEN), AVRAHAM (1887-1970). Autograph

JOFEN (YOFFEN), AVRAHAM (1887-1970). Autograph Letter Signed and stamped written in Hebrew on letterhead. Letter of recommendation for a yeshiva student named Shevach Kotowski, a refugee from Soviet persecution. One page. Bialystok, 27th Tammuz, 1934. R. Avraham Yoffen (aka Avraham Pinsker) was the son-in-law of R. Yosef Yozel Horowitz, the Alter of Novardok. In the antebellum period, he led a network of east European yeshivas all known as Beis Yosef. R. Yoffen relocated to America upon the outbreak of WWII and reestablished Yeshiva Beis Yosef in Brooklyn. One of his notable students was the Steipler Gaon, (as well as the father of the present writer).