An archive of letters and documents from the family of the Baumgarten Rabbis, Vienna – Jerusalem.
Some 25 letters from Rabbi Yosef Baumgarten from Vienna, which he sent to his son Rabbi David Zvi, and to his other sons and daughter. The letters to Rabbi David Zvi mainly deal with Torah thoughts, alongside interesting content. On one postcard he writes to his son David Zvi about his visit to the Belzer Rebbe when he stayed in Vienna for medical purposes, and that the Rebbe asked after him.
Approximately 15 documents about the immigration of the Baumgarten family to Jerusalem, especially Rabbi David Zvi Baumgarten who immigrated to Israel in 1939.
Rabbi Yosef Baumgarten, Av Beit Din of the Schiff Shul of Vienna, was born in 1864 in Helishoya, and was a student of the Chatam Sofer. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Shalom Dov Ber Stern of Szerdahely. Published articles in ‘Tel Talpiot’, died in 1933.