Auction 097
Winner's Unlimited - Holy books, letters from Rabbis and Rebbes, Judaica, Posters & Periodicals, Postcards, Maps, Zionism, numismatics.
Jan 31, 2017
(your local time)
Israel
Terms of sale
View demo
The auction has ended
|
LOT 279:
"Kruza Kra B'Chayil". Important placard issued by the Rabbi of Budapest after the Holocaust. Budapest ...
more...
|
|
|
Start price:
$
200
Estimated price:
$250 - $300
Auction house commission:
20%
VAT: 17% On commission only
|
"Kruza Kra B'Chayil". Important placard issued by the Rabbi of Budapest after the Holocaust. Budapest, 1946. Unknown
[1] leaf. 60x43 cm.
Unknown printed placard from Shevat, 1946, issued by Rabbi I Welz [Rabbi Yisrael Welcz], Budapest 1946.
After the Holocaust, the Jews of the Diaspora were dispersed in various countries, heartbroken and devastated. Rabbi Welz addressed this placard to the Jews of Hungary in particular, and to all the Jews of the Diaspora, to strengthen the foundations of Judaism.
Rabbi Welz issued this interesting placard, printed in Hebrew and English, to strengthen the foundations of Jewry: the obligation to designate time for learning Torah, family purity, Shabbat, supporting Torah and yeshivot, and - in the wake of the many widows and agnot - that nobody should deal with these women unless they have experience in gittin and kiddushin. The writing addresses the fresh survivors and strengthens their hearts, talking about basic matters that needed strengthening at this time. This is a document of first-degree importance.
Rabbi Yisrael Welcz was rabbi in Tinia before the First World War, moreh zedek, dayan and rav"d in Budapest and an editor of the Tal Talpiot Torah journal. He authored the Divrei Yisrael shu"t (1980-1985). He lost his only son, Moshe, and all of his relatives in the Holocaust. After surviving the labor camps, he returned to Budapest, old, sick and broken, during a difficult winter. He worked feverishly supporting the many orphans and widows and all survivors, strengthening and encouraging them. He worked on uniting them and guiding them. He established a beit din for the community and a central beit din for agunot for Hungary, in order to help the many agunot. He moved to Eretz Yisrael and settled in Jerusalem, in the Rabbanim Plitim neighborhood. He passed away on the 7th of Cheshvan, 1974.
Important, historic placard. Not in the ephemera collection of the National Library.
Fold marks, stains. Fine condition.
