R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky. Historic Letter to Harry Fischel Regarding the establishment of Mechon Harry Fischel! ...

R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky. Historic Letter to Harry Fischel Regarding the establishment of Mechon Harry Fischel! Vilna 1932.
Autograph letter by R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky to the well-known American philanthropist R. Yisroel Aaron (Harry) Fischel (1865-1948).
In December 1931, Harry Fischel wrote to R. Chaim Ozer, (copy of the letter included in this lot), that despite the great recession he is still generously supporting various Torah institutions, especially Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchanan to which he devoted tremendous energy and donated vast sums. He continues that it had always been in his wish to establish a special Harry Fischel institute in Europe, Yerusholayim and New York. He writes that for various reasons he feels that his purpose in this world is to spread the Torah among the Jewish people, one of which is that he was born on the 17th of Tammuz, the day the Luchos were broken.
He further writes of his plan to establish three branches of the Harry Fischel Institute, one in Kovno under the auspices of the R. Avrohom Duber Kahana Shapiro (D’var Avrohom), one in Yerusholayim under the auspices of R. Avrohom Yitzchok Kook, and one in Vilna under the auspices of R. Chaim Ozer. Each of these was to start with 13 individuals of great potential and they would be receiving significantly more than their current institutions were paying. He asks that R. Chaim Ozer handpick the thirteen for his institute in Poland. The benefit of these groups would be that they would be able to do extensive Torah research, including scientific, and present it to the world through publication. Indeed the Harry Fischel Institute in Yerusholayim, has been for decades one of the most prominent Torah institutions in Eretz Yisroel.
In his letter, R. Chaim Ozer responds that he gives his full support to the endeavor, but asks of Mr. Fischel that in no way should these institutions affect the current support he was providing for existing Torah institutions throughout the world.
R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky (1863-1940), was born into a distinguished rabbinical family as was renowned from a young age for his brilliant mind coupled with great diligence. He initially learned in Eishishok and later in Volozhin studying under R. Chaim Soloveitchik. He married the daughter of R. Eliyahu Eliezer Grodensky, the leading Rov of Vilna (son-in-law of R. Yisroel Salanter), whom he later succeeded. He dedicated his life to the needs of the Jewish People and was recognized as the leading Posek and spiritual leader of his generation, consulted on virtually every Jewish communal issue. He played an instrumental role in preserving Lithuanian Yeshivos during the beginning of the Communist era, and led the yeshivas of Poland and Russia after the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, arranging for these yeshivas to relocate to Lithuanian cities.
26 by 21 cm. Excellent condition.
Includes copies of the letter Sent to R. Chaim Ozer in both Yiddish and English.
Opening bid $1800