Public Appeal for Membership in Agudat Yisrael – Signed by Leading Rebbes and Rabbis

Public appeal, to "all the G-d fearing and Charedim, to join together (to uphold) the words of G-d" under the banner of Agudat Yisrael, calling to "raise the banner of Torah on the soil of Eretz Israel!". Signed by 24 leading rebbes and rabbis in Eretz Israel. [c. 1950s].
"It is our obligation at this time to convene and organize the thousands of Torah observers from all ends of the country to become a mighty public power and a deciding factor to preserve the Torah and its traditions in each and every city". At the beginning, the need to reorganize is stressed: "In our generation, after millions of our brethren have perished, large communities and Torah centers were annihilated… After this destruction, Eretz Israel is the largest center of faithful Jewry".
Among the signatures: Rebbe Yisrael Alter of Ger; Rebbe Chaim Mordechai Rosenbaum of Nadvirna; Rebbe Chaim Meir Hager of Vizhnitz, his brother Rabbi Baruch Hager of Seret-Vizhnitz, Rebbe Avraham Ya’akov of Sadigura, Rebbe Shlomo son of R’ Nachum Mordechai of Chortkiv, Rebbe Moshe Yechiel HaLevi Epstein of Ożarów, Rabbi Yechiel Yehoshua Rabinowitz of Biala, Rebbe Shmuel Eliyahu Taub of Modzhitz, Rebbe Mordechai Goldman son of Rabbi G.M. of Zvhil, Rebbe Avraham Weinberg of Slonim, Rebbe Zvi Aryeh Twersky of Zlatopol, Rabbi Yochanan Twersky of Rachmastrivka, Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Rabbi Akiva Sofer, Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin of Lutsk, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, Rabbi David Shfarber, Rabbi Yosef Adler, Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna, Rabbi Baruch Marcus, Rabbi Aharon Weinstein, Rabbi Baruch Kunstadt, Rabbi Ezra Attie.
[1] leaf, 21X52.5 cm. Typewritten; hand-signed by the rabbis. Good-fair condition, creases and wear. (2 leaves, pasted one to the other, for the rabbis’ signatures).