Letter handwritten by Rabbi Avraham Zvi Weiss - to the Admor of Strpakov Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Lifshitz-Halberstam.

Letter handwritten by Rabbi Avraham Zvi Weiss - to the Admor of Strpakov Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Lifshitz-Halberstam.
Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Weiss was born in the town of Bendkowitz, Hungary to Rabbi Menachem Weiss of blessed memory, Munkacz and to Chaya Zifra, the daughter of Rebbe Aharon Weiss of Bendkowitz, the brother of the "Imrei Yosef". He was ordained by his grandfather and Rabbi Shmuel Engel of Radomishla, Rabbi Avraham Yosef Gruenwald, Av Beit Din of Ungvar, Rabbi Eliezer David Grunwald, Av Beit Din of Satmar, and Rabbi of Munkacs. As rabbi of the ultra-Orthodox community in Jaffa and in 1914 was appointed to serve as the first rabbi of Neve Ahiezer, a position he held until his death.

Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Lifshitz-Halberstam: Rebbe of Stropkov (1905-1995), son of his daughter and disciple of the Admor Rabbi Shalom Halberstam of Stropkov. Served abroad as Av Beit Din Yablonka and Dayan in Burgas. After the hardships of the Holocaust he served as rabbi in the DP camps in Bomberg and in the Galilot Franconia. In 1949, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Ramle, where he established the "Divrei Chaim" Beit Midrash. 

[1] Leaf, Official Blank Document, Bnei Brak, 1959.

Condition: Very Good, folding marks, filing holes.