Auction 050 Part 1
Satmar: Rebbes and Rabbis of Satmar-Sighet, Hungary and Transylvania
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LOT 143:
Invitation to the Establishment of the Central Rabbinical Conference in the United States – Adar 1955
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Invitation to the Establishment of the Central Rabbinical Conference in the United States – Adar 1955
Printed letter, invitation to the general assembly to found the Central Rabbinical Conference of the United States and Canada, with (printed) signatures of the head rabbis of the "interim directorship committee" and "interim executive committee", headed by the Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. Brooklyn, New York, Adar 1955.
Historical document from the first public organization of the "extreme" Hungarian Orthodox rabbis in the United States. The decision to found the Conference was already made in the first gathering in Tevet – "a rabbinical union to guard our holy Torah transmitted to us from our fathers and holy rabbis" – and in the interim a directorship committee of five rabbis and an executive committee of six rabbis were chosen to organize the general gathering that was to choose a permanent leadership for the Central Rabbinical Conference.
The general gathering was scheduled for 4 Iyar, 1955, in the Grand Paradise Hall in Brooklyn. The scheduled events included: appointing members of the leadership, members of the "executive committee", members of various committees, and discussion of various suggestions for the agenda.
The letter is signed by the heads of the "interim directorship committee": Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, R. Yonatan Steif of Budapest, R. Yehoshua Chaim Teitelbaum of Ciężkowice, R. Yitzchak Alter Wagschal of Łańcut, R. Levi Yitzchak Grünwald of Tzelem (Deutschkreutz); as well as the heads of the "interim executive committee": R. Hillel Lichtenstein of Kraszna, R. Yehoshua Grünwald of Khust, R. Yechezkel Shraga Rubin Halberstam of Cieszanów, R. Yissachar Ber Rottenberg of Wodzisław, R. Moshe Teitelbaum of Sighet [author of Berach Moshe, later Rebbe of Satmar], R. Moshe HaLevi Horowitz of Boston. Director: R. Yaakov Segal Leibowitz of Kopisch (Kaposvár).
[1] leaf, official stationery. Approx. 28 cm. Good condition. Folds.
