Auction 113 Illustrious Personalities, Holocaust & Anti-Semitism, Historic Documents, Art, Seforim, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes & manuscripts
By Winner'S
Apr 8, 2019
3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem, Israel

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LOT 30:

Greetings by the Basel Community to their Rabbi, Rabbi Asher Michael Cohen (Kahn) on the 25th Anniversary of his ...

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Greetings by the Basel Community to their Rabbi, Rabbi Asher Michael Cohen (Kahn) on the 25th Anniversary of his Becoming the Rabbi of the Town. Sivan, [1910]

Hundreds of letters and telegrams of greeting by rabbis, public figures and institutions wishing him success as rabbi, from across Western Europe and the Land of Israel.

Approximately 300 items, most of them in German, and a few in Hebrew.

Rabbi Dr. Asher Michael Cohen (1862-1926) was one of the leaders of the Chareidi community of Switzerland, a leading disciple of Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer. As a youth he was already ordained as a rabbi and was appointed the rabbi of Basel (northern Switzerland), a position he held for approximately forty years, until his passing.

Among the senders of the greetings:

Institutions of the Basel community, including a list of students.

Mr. Solly Guggenheim, a very close friend of the rabbi's, and one of the important figures of the community. Rabbi Dov Hillel Konigsberger Av Beit Din of Pleshine (entirely in Hebrew), Rabbi David Tzvi Hoffman, a rabbi and lecturer in Berlin; Rabbi Meir Hildesheimer; Rabbi Moshe Michael Cohen, Av Beit Din of Fulda; Rabbi Sinai Seifer Av Beit Din of Karslruhe; Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Schiller, Av Beit Din of Colmar.

Leaders of the Zurich community and its institutions, leaders of the Freiburg community (south Germany), the heads of the Pressburg yeshivah; the "Office of the Zionist Center" (with a postage stamp with Herzl's portrait); Berlin; Paris and more.

Rabbi Cohen corresponded on halachic and practical matters with contemporary rabbis, such as Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan of Kaunas (Kovna) and Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook. In 1897, he suggested to Herzl that the first Zionist Congress be held in his city, after the objection of rabbis of various circles (both Orthodox and Reform) to the congress being held in Munich, as was initially planned. Rabbi Cohen even took part in the Congress and was its first speaker. On the other hand, he was one of the initiators of the 'Agudat Yisrael' movement and one of the first rabbis in Germany who called the Chareidi community to unite within its framework. He took part in the inaugural congress of 'Agudat Yisrael' in Katowice and was its first speaker.

Description

Green binding with gilt imprint. Various sizes and conditions. Fine-very fine overall condition.