Large, high-quality collection of over 300 photographs depicting many rabbis and Admo”rim in the Land of Israel 1950s-1970s. Most (possibly all) photographed by “Photo Weiss.” Black and white.
The rabbis in the photographs include:
The Admo”r Rabbi Yoel of Satmar in Jerusalem (3 photographs), Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, the Chazon I”sh, the Rav of Tchebin, Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank, the Shefa Chaim of Sanz, the Brisker Rav, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef (many photographs), Rabbi Shlom’keh of Zvihl, the Yeshuot Moshe of Vizhnitz, the Beit Yisrael of Gur, Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin, Rabbi Aryeh Levin, Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim, Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Herzog, the zealot Rabbi Amram Blau, Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Finkel, the Admo”r Rabbi Aharon of Belz and many more.
It is rare to find such a large, high-quality collection!
Approximately [305] photographs. Various sizes. Average size: 18×12 cm.
Overall moderate-fine condition. Light creases and stains in some of the pictures. Many of the pictures were put in transparencies for protection. Stamps from a museum that closed on the backs of the photographs, scratched-out by pen.