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LOT 172:
Response by R' Shimon Yisroel Posen Ab"d Shopron to R' Yosef Greenwald Ab"d Szombathely, Budapest ...
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Response by R' Shimon Yisroel Posen Ab"d Shopron to R' Yosef Greenwald Ab"d Szombathely, Budapest 1946.
Response by R' Shimon Yisroel Posen Ab"d Shopron with his signature.
Rabbi Shimon Yisrael Posen was the rabbi and head of yeshiva of the Haredi community of Sopron. After World War II, he served as a Ram at the Satmar Yeshiva in Williamsburg.
Rabbi Yosef Grunwald (1903-1984), son of Rabbi Yaakov Yechezkiya of Papa and studied under his father. Appointed Dayan in Szatmar and succeeded his father as Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva in Papa in 1941. The Rabbi of Papa suffered terribly during WWII and lost his wife and ten children. After the liberation, he remarried and returned to Papa and attempted to rebuild Jewish life there. After a short period, he left Hungary with a group of his students established a Yeshiva in Antwerp, Belgium, but left in 1951 to settle in New York, where he established a large community and Yeshiva Kehillas Yaakov – Papa and served as Vice President of the Hisachdus Harabbanim. Author of Vayechi Yosef.
1 page, 2 sides.
Size: 30 x 21 cm
Condition: Overall in fine condition, has some pieces of tape.
