A rabbinical camp diary that compiles all of the permissions for agunot to remarry granted by Rabbi Yitzchak HaKohen Huberman in the Wetzlar Displaced Persons Camp in Germany during [1947].
20 notebook pages, 20.5 cm. Written on both sides. Yiddish, Hebrew, and Aramaic.
This rabbinic camp diary is rare testimony to the terrible historical and halachic reality in which the survivors found themselves after the Holocaust, when there was a need to find a way to permit agunot to remarry, on the basis of testimony that was sometimes very tenuous. The diary is a compilation of copies of the permissions given by Rabbi Yitzchak Huberman’s beit din with the names of the rabbis who served with him on the beit din and the details of the cases, the testimony, and the permission granted. At the beginning of each document are comments, possibly in Rabbi Huberman’s handwriting.
Rabbi Yitzchak HaCohen Huberman (1896-1977) was known as the “Tzaddik of Ra’anana.” He was admired by the Beit Yisrael of Gur and became famous as a righteous man, a Kabbalist, and a miracle worker. He was born in Poland and studied in the yeshivah of the Shem MiShmuel of Sochatchov. He visited the Imrei Emet of Gur and other righteous men. During the Holocaust he was exiled to Siberia and instructed to cut down trees, but after he was forced to work on Shabbat he cut off his fingertip with an ax. After the war he moved to Weltzlar in Germany where he served as rabbi for six years, where he worked, among other things, to take care of the spiritual needs of the survivors, such as freeing agunot.
Notebook leaves with no binding. Tiny tears. Fine condition.