Collection of about 200 letters, written between 1890-1950 by city and community rabbis and Roshei yeshivot throughout the United States.
Unique features: Writers include: Rabbi Eliezer Silver, President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada and Nasi of Agudat Yisrael of America; Rabbi Shmuel Aharon HaLevi Pardes of Benden, editor of the prominent “HaPardes” Torah journal, in addition to correspondence between a sausage factory in Chicago and the Chief Rabbi of Iraq Jewry, Sasson Kadoorie and much more.Most of the letters relate to kashrut of meat and ritual slaughter, primarily smoked meat, and it provides a comprehensive picture of the concern and effort that the community rabbis in the United States expended to make sure that their congregants would eat glatt kosher meat, and that inappropriate meat not reach them.The letters were written throughout the country: New York, Philadelphia, Rock Island, Cleveland, Chicago, Kansas City, Texas, Washington, Columbus, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Boston, Denver, Miami, Oklahoma, Cincinnati and many more. They were written by many tens of rabbis, including some who had served in European rabbinates before moving to the United States.
Condition: Generally fine condition.