Original, impressive photo of the levaya of Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin and founder of the Daf Yomi program.
Picture measures: 21×13 cm. Fold lines, reinforced with tape, without loss. Very rare photo, it does not appear in Rabbi Mandelbaum’s works about Mahra”m Shapira.
Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin passed away on Thursday, the seventh of Cheshvan, when he was only 48 years old. His funeral procession took place on Friday, and was one of the largest to take place in Poland in that era.