"Application for Immigration Permit" Form - Signed by Rabbi Eliyahu Dushnitzer

"Application for Immigration Permit" Form - Signed by Rabbi Eliyahu Dushnitzer
Official printed form, "Application for Immigration Permit for a Relative Abroad", filled-in and signed by the applicant - R. Eliyahu Dushnitzer, dean of the Petach Tikva yeshiva. Petach Tikva, Av 1934.
In this document, R. Eliyahu Dushnitzer requests an immigration permit for the purpose of family reunification with his daughter, his son-in-law R. Gershon Fishman and their two children. The form contains information about R. Eliyahu Dushnitzer, and indicates that he immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1925 on the ship Toronto, and that he works for his livelihood as yeshiva director, with a monthly pay of eight Palestine Pounds. In the document, R. Eliyahu commits to provide for his relatives, "so that they should not need support from any organization".
The document is signed by witnesses confirming the verity of the request: His disciples R. "Alter Williamovsky" (later a rabbi in the US), and R. "Yosef Yismach".
R. Eliyahu Dushnitzer (1876-1949), product of the Telz and Slabodka yeshivot, a foremost disciple of the Chafetz Chaim in his Kollel Kodashim. (He was amongst the minyan sent by the Chafetz Chaim to exorcise the dybbuk. During the ritual, the dybbuk testified that R. Eliyahu is regarded as a complete Tzaddik in Heaven). After R. Yerucham Levovitz left the Radin yeshiva, he succeeded him as mashgiach, and from 1926, he served as dean and spiritual director of the Lomzhe yeshiva in Petach Tikva. His lectures were published by his disciple R. Chaim Kanievsky, in the book Nachalat Eliyahu. At his funeral, the Chazon Ish attested that he was one of the 36 hidden righteous men of the generation.
His son-in-law, R. Gershon Chanoch Fishman (1900-1966), rabbi of Rutki-Kossaki near Łomża. In 1938, he immigrated to Eretz Israel, and served as rabbi of Herzliya for twenty-eight years. He is known for his scholarly books: Simchat HaChag, Mei HaChag, Sfeika D'Rabbanan, which were reprinted in several editions.
[1] leaf, official form (of the Jewish Agency). 33.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and filing holes.