Letter with the Signature of Rabbi David Budnik, Rosh Yeshiva of Novardok in Dvinsk. Dvinsk, 1933

Letter with the Signature of Rabbi David Budnik, Rosh Yeshiva of Novardok in Dvinsk. Dvinsk, 1933

Letter from Rabbi David Budnik, one of the foremost students of the Alter of Novardok to the philanthropist and activist Rabbi Chaim Yisrael Eiss of Zurich, regarding assistance for the Novardok yeshivas in Latvia. Dvinsk, 1933.

Specifications: [1] official paper leaf, written on both sides. 21x28 cm. With the handwritten signature of Rabbi David Budnik and the yeshiva's secretary and with the yeshiva's stamp.

Unique Features: In the letter is a description of the yeshivas for younger students opened in various cities in the Dvinsk region and their difficult economic state. "Thank G-d, a successful and fruitful place was found here to teach Torah to many students ... and its material state is very poor." The recipient is later asked to assist "the honor of the Torah and the traditional education of all of the entire country of Latvia ... provide assistance!..."

Background: Rabbi David Budnik was essentially the primary successor of the Alter of Novardok in teaching the philosophy of Novardok and in establishing many branches of the yeshiva. He was born c. 1893, known as a genius at a young age, and was accepted to the Chofetz Chaim's yeshiva in Radin, where he was taught by his uncle Rabbi Moshe Landinsky. He headed the Novardok yeshivas in Mohilev and Zhitomir, and he was the one to re-establish the yeshiva in Novardok after it was destroyed in the First World War. He then established the chain of Novardok yeshivas in Dvinsk and its environs. He was martyred with the yeshiva's students in 1941. (Novardok, Bnei Brak 2014 volume 2 page 97; Yahadut Latvia page 373).

Condition: Fine, fold marks with tiny tears without damage to text.