Letter of Recommendation to the Rabbinate, by Rabbi Menachem Ziemba – With a Letter of Recommendation by Rabbi Meir ...

Letter of Recommendation to the Rabbinate, by Rabbi Menachem Ziemba – With a Letter of Recommendation by Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzky
Letter to the Community Chairmen of Skulsk [Poland], approx. 11 lines handwritten and signed by the renowned Rabbi “Menachem Ziemba of Prague”, recommending the choice of Rabbi Mendel Hertz of Greater Biala for the rabbinate. Warsaw-Prague, 1926.
In the leaf margins is another letter of recommendation of 6 lines handwritten and signed by Rabbi Meir Dan Refael" [Plotzky].
Rabbi Menachem Ziemba (1883-1943), the most renowned of the Polish Torah scholars of his generation, a head of “Mo'etzet Gedolei HaTorah” in Poland and member of “Va'ad HaRabbanim” in Warsaw. Taught many disciples. All the Torah leaders of Lithuania and Poland realized his tremendous erudition as one of the leading Torah scholars of his times. He perished in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on Pesach 1943. Among his works are “Totza'ot Chaim”, “Zera Avraham” etc. most of his Torah novellae were lost in the Holocaust.
Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzky (1866-1926), author of “Kli Chemda”, a leading Polish Torah scholar and rabbi, disciple of the author of “Nefesh Chaya”, the Gaon of Kutno and the “Avnei Nezer”. Served as Av Beit Din of Dvohrt and Ostrów-Mozowiecka. Participated in the famous journey of the prominent rabbis who traveled to the US in 1924. He was one of the chief speakers on the forged “Yerushalmi Kodshim” polemic.
Rabbi Menachem Ziemba's official stationary, approx. 28 cm. Fair condition, tears to paper folds with few damages to text.