Auction 96 FINE JUDAICA: PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, RABBINIC LETTERS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART
By Kestenbaum & Company
Feb 9, 2022
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States

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LOT 36:

HALBERSTAM, BEN-ZION
(The Kedushas Tzion, Second Grand Rebbe of Bobov, 1874-1941). Autograph Letter Signed ...

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HALBERSTAM, BEN-ZION
(The Kedushas Tzion, Second Grand Rebbe of Bobov, 1874-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to R. Mordechai Segal.



Sending Mazal-Tov wishes upon the birth of a daughter, followed by many blessings.
One page (integral blank), stained, two heavy folds.
Bobov: 1925


Son of the first Bobover Rebbe R. Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905) and grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, R. Benzion Halberstam succeeded his father as Rebbe when he was 31 years old whereupon he vastly expanded Bobov Chassidus. He was murdered along with family members by the Nazis and their Ukrainian henchmen.


LETTERS FROM THE KEDUSHAS TZION ARE SCARCE.


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