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Letter handwritten and signed by the Admor Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael of Hornosteipel. Milwaukee 1943. - Letter handwritten and signed by the Admor Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael of Hornosteipel. Milwaukee 1943. Letter on official letterhead, handwritten and signed by the Admor Rabbi Yisrael Twersky of Hornosteipel. From Vayigash of 1943, during the Shoah. Admor Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Twersky (1908-1973) was the son of the Admor Rabbi Yehuda Leib of Hornosteipel-Chicago. He was named after his grandfather of Cherkes. He settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he established a small chassidus. He married Devorah Leah Halberstam, daughter of his uncle the Admor Kedushat Zion of Babov, who perished in the Shoah. His eldest son succeeded him—Rabbi Shlomo Twersky. His other sons maintained the Chassidic/Admor appearance but also had academic degrees: Rabbi Mordechai Dov (son-in-law of Rabbi Shalom of Nadvorna-Brighton) was an accountant; Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heschel, an admired psychiatrist, founded treatment centers for drug addictions and wrote medical textbooks on psychological illnesses; Rabbi Aharon David was a lawyer, lecturer, and dean at the Law Faculty of Hofstra University; Rabbi Yehiel Michal (son-in-law of Rabbi Yisrael Avraham Stein, Av Beit Din of Paltishan) succeeded his father in the Beit Yehuda community of Milwaukee and was a composer and worked in kiruv.