Auction 91 Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts Featuring an Extensive Collection of Rabbinic Autograph Letters.
Nov 12, 2020 (your local time)
USA
 The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
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LOT 38:

FRIEDMAN, (KARLINER), DOVID.
(1828-1917).  Autograph Letter Signed written on letterhead in Hebrew to ...

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FRIEDMAN, (KARLINER), DOVID.
(1828-1917).  Autograph Letter Signed written on letterhead in Hebrew to Avraham Harkavy.



Letter of recommendation for Rabbi Lipa Rosman, a shadar (collector) on behalf of the Bikur Cholim Hospital of Jerusalem. Rabbi Friedman details the importance of the hospital, as well as its great need. He asks Harkavy to utilize his influence and provide assistance.
One page. 4to.
Karlin-Pinsk: 15th Kislev 1900


Affectionately known as R. Dovid Karliner, Rabbi David Friedman was regarded as one of the great Talmudic scholars of his time. He was rabbi of Karlin-Pinsk for half a century to where Jews would flock with halachic questions. In addition, he took an active role in communal affairs relating to Eretz Israel, accepting the appointment as secretary of Mazkeret Moshe, the fund named after Sir Moses Montefiore, for the development of settlement in the land. The Orientalist Abraham Harkavy (1835-1919) was a distinguished historian of Russian Jewry. An erstwhile student of the Volozhin Yeshiva, Rabbi Friedman addresses him here with respect and rabbinic honorifics.

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