Auction 2
Books, Manuscripts, Letters. No credit card fees
May 18, 2020
Israel
105 Eade road, Building A, 2nd floor unit 4, London N4 1TJ, England
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LOT 208:
RABBI NACHMAN DAVID LANDINSKI, FIRST ROSH YESHIVA OF GATESHEAD – TWO LETTERS TO RABBI TZVI HIRSH FERBER ...
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Sold for: $300
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300
Estimated price:
$500 - $600
Auction house commission:
23%
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RABBI NACHMAN DAVID LANDINSKI, FIRST ROSH YESHIVA OF GATESHEAD – TWO LETTERS TO RABBI TZVI HIRSH FERBER, REGARDING HIS FUNDRAISING EFFORTS FOR THE GATESHEAD YESHIVA.
Letter 1: Purim 1948. Addressing Rabbi Ferber with highly complementary titles, Rabbi Landinski thanks him on behalf of the staff and students of the Yeshiva for the donation of £500 received from a philanthropists as a result of his efforts.
Letter 2: Asking Rabbi Ferber, who is addressed as ‘Harav Hagaon Hagadol, Tzana Malei Safra, Tiferes Yisrael...’, to remind a donor of the donation he had promised but not yet given, as Rabbi Landinski has taken out personal loans [for the Yeshiva] relying on receiving this donation.
Rabbi Nachman David Landinski (1902-1968), son of Rabbi Moshe Landinski, Rosh Yeshiva of the Chafetz Chaim’s Yeshiva in Radin, studied under his father and under Rabbi Naftali Tropp and the Chafetz Chaim, as well as under Rabbi Zundel of Eishishok and at the Yeshivos of Kelm, Mir, Lomzha, Novardok and under Rabbi Ahron Bakst in Suvalk. Headed Yeshivos in Mlawa and Zhishkowa in Poland, and on the recommendation of the Chafetz Chaim to Reb David Dryan of Gateshead, he was invited to become the town’s first Rosh Yeshiva, in 1929. Rabbi Landinski also served temporarily as Rabbi of Gateshead from 1935 to 1938, and rescued many youths from Nazi-occupied Europe by accepting them as students at the Yeshiva, whatever their standard of learning at the time.
Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Ferber (1879-1966), was born in Lithuania and studied under Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor of Kovno, Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer and Rabbi Naftali Amsterdam. He was a leading rabbinical scholar and leader in London, heading an independent community in the West End and leading the Hisachdus Harabanim in England. First Rosh Yeshiva of Manchester Yeshiva and later heading the Etz Chayim Yeshiva in London. Talented speaker and author of 14 rabbinic works, including Kerem Hatzvi.
2 letters. 26 x 21 cm. Very good condition.
