Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Bloch, Joseph Leib, 1860-1930
  בלאך, יוסף יהודה ליב

Other related names

• Hoffmann, Jakob, 1881-1956, author
• Hoffmann, Jakob, 1881-1956, signer
• Telshe Yeshiva (Telšiai, Lithuania), associated name
• Jüdische Gemeinde Frankfurt am Main, associated name

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977686252903681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1414660626
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229058

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1926

Place

Telšiai, Lithuania ; Frankfurt am Main

Summary

Letter of recommendation for Yomtov Lipman Rakow for positions serving as teacher of Hebrew, Rabbinic studies, and Judaics in Germany; Rakow (1884-1950), from Uzda, Belarus (a town southwest of Minsk) taught Hebrew and Rabbinic studies first at the Torah Lehranstalt (headed by Salomon Breuer, who died months before this manuscript in July 1926) and of Jakob Hoffmann, both in Frankfurt; Rakow was to escape Germany at the outbreak of World War II and served as Rosh yeshivah in London (his son, Betzalel Rakow (1927-2003) was a rabbi in Gateshead, England, and head of the Council of Torah Sages, Agudath Israel of Great Britian). Jakob Hoffmann translated (and added to) the letter into German (below Bloch's autograph) and undersigned, dated 24 December 1926. Typed portion in 5 lines; written portion in 9 lines.

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Extent

Support

Provenance

• Stamped with the official stamp of Jakob Hoffmann (stamp at document footer, "Dr. Jakob Hoffmann, Rabbiner der Israel. Gemeinde, Frankfurt a. M.").
   
• Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 70 (March 31, 2020) lot 340.
   

Subjects topical

• Rakow, Yomtov Lipman,--1884-1951--Knowledge and learning
• Rabbis--Lithuania--Telšiai--20th century--Autographs
• Rabbis--Germany--Frankfurt am Main--20th century--Autographs

Genres

• Manuscripts, Hebrew--20th century
• Manuscripts, German--20th century
• letters of recommendation

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