Letter of Subscription to a Book – From Rebbe Menashe Eichenstein, Author of Alfei Menashe and From Other Rabbis

Leaf with notes and signatures of ten subscribers who signed in advance for the purchase of the book Kol Ya'akov from the author of Melo HaRo'im after its printing. 1899.
Among the signatures: Letter (approximately six penciled lines) handwritten and signed by Rebbe Menashe Eichenstein of Zhydachiv, author of Alfei Menashe and a letter (five lines in ink) by Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel Wallerstein Av Beit Din of Rzeszów (Rayshe).
Rebbe Menashe Eichenstein (1865-1935), son and successor of Rebbe Yissachar Berish of Zhydachiv and son-in-law of Rebbe Yehoshua Horowitz of Dzikov- Ropshitz. Outstanding Torah scholar, author of Alfei Menashe, Torat Ha’Asham, and Mat’e Menashe. From 1904, he served as Av Beit Din of Rzeszów, replacing Yehoshua Heshel Wallerstein. After WWI he settled in Mukacheve and from 1924 served as Rabbi of Zhydachiv instead of his father.
Yehoshua Heshel Wallerstein (1844-1904), Av Beit Din of Rzeszów, disciple of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz and a leading Galician rabbi. Authored the Sde Yehoshua responsa and Kerem Yehoshua.
21 cm. leaf, written on both sides. Brittle paper, good-fair condition, tears and tape on margins.