Three Letters from Rabbi Shmuel Weintraub – Dean of Novardok Yeshivot – 1927 and 1936

Three Letters from Rabbi Shmuel Weintraub – Dean of Novardok Yeshivot – 1927 and 1936
Three letters handwritten and signed by R. "Shmuel Weintraub", dean of the Beit Yosef – Novardok yeshivot in Semiatyce and Pinsk-Karlin.
• Two letters addressed to Vaad HaYeshivot in Vilna. "Siemiatycze", winter 1927.
• Letter of recommendation for a needy and sickly man, who was compelled "to wander from place to place and request assistance". Karlin-Pinsk, 1936.
R. Shmuel Weintraub (1894-1942), an elder and close disciple of the Alter of Novardok, and a leading dean of Novardok yeshivot. Born in Proskurov, Ukraine, at the age of 13 he came to study in the Novardok yeshiva. He also studied for a while in Telz and Slutsk, yet always returned to the yeshiva of his teacher in Novardok. In 1918, the Alter of Novardok appointed him dean of the Novardok yeshiva in Berditchev. He was a prominent leader of the Beit Yosef network of yeshivot, and headed the escape operations of Novardok yeshivot, who escaped with their thousands of students from Bolshevik Russia to Poland. R. Shmuel established many branches of the yeshiva throughout Poland, and wandered with his yeshiva from place to place. In 1925, he transferred the yeshiva to Semiatyce. In 1927, he was appointed rabbi of Karlin, and founded a large yeshiva in nearby Pinsk. He summoned his colleague, R. Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky – the Steipler, to head the yeshiva alongside him. During the war, he fled to Vilna and from there to Jerusalem, where he passed away at a young age, leaving behind a large family, known until this day as a family of Torah scholars and Torah disseminators.
Three letters (official stationery). Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.