A letter by Rabbi Shlomo David Kahana – donation for strengthening the Jewish community in the Old City – 1942

A letter by Rabbi Shlomo David Kahana – donation for strengthening the Jewish community in the Old City – 1942
A letter signed by Rabbi Shlomo David Kahane to R. David Miller of San Francisco. 1 Mar 1942.
In his letter, on his official paper as rabbi of the Old City in Jerusalem, Rabbi Kahane requests from the philanthropist a contribution to strengthening the Jewish community in the Old City. Rabbi Kahane says: "After I was saved... during the war, when I emigrated from Warsaw to Israel, I accepted upon myself with God's will, the role of being the Rabbi of the old city, with a clear intention to revive this holy place, and have the voice of Jacob be heard again there".
Rabbi Kahane was seeking extra help for the teacher seminar, 'Achiezer', which among others, was teaching war refugees, scholars who came recently to our holy land with nothing and penniless". He asks Mr. David Miller to "influence the local federation, the synagogues Gabays, to establish a support on behalf of this institution."
At the end of the letter Rabbi Kahane's signature and stamped: "Old City Yeshiva for teachers, in Jerusalem - Courtyard 'Or Hachaim'".
Rabbi Shlomo David Kahana (1865-1948) was head of the Warsaw Beth-Din and then rabbi of Jerusalem's Old City. He Freed thousands of Agunot as head of the Office of Agunot. President of the Polish rabbis in Israel.
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