Letter of Good Year Wishes from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz - Kamenitz, Elul 1936

Letter of Good Year Wishes from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz - Kamenitz, Elul 1936
Letter from R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz, dean of the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshiva in Kamenitz (Kamyenyets). [Kamenitz], Elul 1936.
Lengthy letter (in Yiddish) from the Kamenitz yeshiva, with blessings for a good year, addressed to a family of philanthropists in Philadelphia, United States.
The letter, mostly typewritten, concludes with close to 6 lines handwritten and signed by R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz, the yeshiva dean, with warm and hearty blessings in Yiddish and Hebrew: "I second the blessings… may you be written and sealed in the book of absolute pious men, immediately for a good and advanced life, for a good and blessed year, with all the blessings and success… One who blesses him, Baruch Dov Leibovitz dean of the Beit Yitzchak yeshiva".
R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz (1864-1940), author of Birkat Shmuel, taught many disciples. He was a disciple of R. Chaim of Brisk in the Volozhin yeshiva, and the son-in-law of R. Avraham Yitzchak Zimmerman Rabbi of Hlusk. After his father-in-law went to serve as rabbi of Kremenchuk, he succeeded him in Hlusk and established a yeshiva. After a 13-year tenure, he was asked to head the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshiva in Slabodka. During WWI, he wandered with the yeshiva to Minsk, Kremenchuk and Vilna, finally settling in Kamenitz. He authored Birkat Shmuel on Talmudic topics. His writings are basic works of deep yeshiva Torah study.
2 leaves, official stationery. Approx. 29 cm. Good condition. Minor tears to margins and folding marks.