Archive of Rabbi Dr. Heinrich Brody Rabbi of Prague – Hundreds of Letters, Photographs and Documents – Prague ...

Archive of Rabbi Dr. Heinrich Brody Rabbi of Prague – Hundreds of Letters, Photographs and Documents – Prague, Ungvar and Náchod, ca. 1890s-1920s – Letters from His Father Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Brody Dayan of Ungvar – Letters from Rabbis, Researchers, Writers and Intellectuals from the Chochmat Yisrael Movement

Archive of Rabbi Dr. Heinrich (Chaim) Brody (grandson of R. Shlomo Ganzfried author of Shulchan Aruch), chief rabbi of Prague – including many letters from his father R. Shlomo Zalman Brody dayan in Ungvar (Uzhhorod); letters from rabbis, writers and intellectuals of the Chochmat Yisrael movement; photographs; certificates and other documents. Ungvar, Berlin, Náchod, Prague and other places, [ca. late 19th to mid-20th century]. Hebrew, Yiddish, Hungarian and German.

The archive includes:
• Close to 200 letters from his father R. Shlomo Zalman Brody (dayan in Ungvar, son-in-law of R. Shlomo Ganzfried). Most the letters were sent from Ungvar to Prague (a few to Berlin and Náchod), in the 1890s-1910s. With letters from his mother Rachel (daughter of R. Shlomo Ganzfried) and other family members. Ink stamps of R. Shlomo Zalman on some letters. Some original envelopes enclosed. Approx. 130 letters are written on postcards (mostly undivided postcards), and 15 letters are written on stubs of postal forms.
• Handwritten booklets and leaves (presumably in the hand of R. Heinrich Brody) – sermons and Torah novellae.
• Close to 50 letters from rabbis, dayanim, poskim and Torah scholars, such as R. Simcha HaLevi Bamberger Rabbi of Wandsbek; R. Leib Rubinstein dayan of Pressburg; R. Yisrael Brody, dayan of Michalovce, author of Ishei Yisrael; R. Chaim David Brandeis Rabbi of Istrik (Galicia); his uncle R. Binyamin Posen of Frankfurt am Main (publisher of Or Zarua); and more.
• Close to 100 letters from various friends, researchers, writers and scholars from the Chochmat Yisrael movement, including: Salomon Buber; Achad HaAm – Asher Zvi Ginsberg (four letters); Avraham Kahana; Isidore Goldblum (Yafaz; Perach Zahav); Samuel Benjamin Schwarzberg of New York; Shaul Pinchas Rabinovich (Shefer); Dr. Shlomo Mandelkern, author of the Heichal HaKodesh Biblical Concordance; and many dozens more letters (Hebrew, German and Hungarian) to R. Heinrich Brody and his family.
• Some 90 photographs documenting R. Heinrich Brody and his family during various periods of their life, together with acquaintances and members of the community. Some with photographers' and studio stamps.
• Items from WWI, including: ration cards; postcards with military stamps and various letters; postcards with portraits of senior commanders in the Austro-Hungarian army; and more.
• Certificates, paper items, invitations and various documents, belonging to R. Heinrich Brody and his family, including: three official certificates from the Austro-Hungarian Empire – Order of the Iron Crown awarded to R. Heinrich Brody (Vienna, 30th August 1917).
• Bookplate of R. Heinrich Brody, produced by Hermann Struck (28 copies), and bookplates of his son Yisrael Brody.
• Wooden stamp of R. Heinrich Brody (Latin characters). • Various ephemera items, mostly from the archive of his son R. Yisrael Brody.
• And more.

Rabbi Dr. Heinrich (Chaim) Brody (1868-1942), chief rabbi of Prague. Born in Ungvar, where he was raised by his father R. Shlomo Zalman Brody, and his grandfather R. Shlomo Ganzfried, both dayanim in the city. He studied in the Pressburg yeshiva, and later in R. Hildesheimer's rabbinical seminary in Berlin. Served as rabbi of Náchod, later succeeding his father-in-law R. Nathan Ehrenfeld as chief rabbi of Prague. He specialized in the study of manuscripts from the Rishonim, and was known as one of the most prominent researchers of Spanish Jewry's medieval poetry. An enthusiastic Zionist activist, and president of the Mizrachi in Czechoslovakia. Immigrated to Jerusalem in 1934, where he directed Salman Schocken's Institute for the Research of Hebrew Poetry.
His father, R. Shomo Zalman Brody (1839-1917), dayan and posek in his hometown of Ungvar, successor of his father-in-law R. Shlomo Ganzfried. Some of his novellae was published at the end of his father-in-law's book Ohalei Shem.

Approx. 1000 items. Size and condition vary.

PLEASE NOTE: Item description was shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to Hebrew text.