Large rare collection of letters and documents – most handwritten – from students in the Mir Yeshiva when they were in Shanghai during the Second World War.
The documents include a leaf with a handwritten description by a yeshiva student regarding the miraculous rescue of the yeshiva students in face of the terrible losses in occupied Europe [‘The places of the Torah are destroyed, and these are the names in whose mercy saved by a miracle … the … in the Mir Yeshiva …’]; a certificate for an expert slaughterer, handwritten, given to Yaakov son of Zvi Hirsch Mordochovitch, a student in the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai with the approval: “Many times we have checked him and found that he could feel the blemish … he slaughtered before us hundreds of animals and birds … we testify … that he can be trusted regarding kashrut …”; with a letter in the hand of this young man that “I accepted upon myself … not to slaughter in this city of Shanghai without the permission of the slaughterers here … Chaim Plotkin … Yosef Kistinger … and I will not trespass …”; and another number of letters written by him. Leaf with Torah novellae [text on both sides] written by a Mir Yeshiva student in Shanghai regarding the laws of oath and witnesses; two leaves of Torah novellae from a yeshiva student regarding shechita, on official Chinese paper with printed Chinese letters at its head [text on both sides of the leaf]; three leaves [text on both sides] of Torah novellae written by a yeshiva student in Shanghai with Torah novellae regarding “Mafkid and Nifkad”, laws of rental, etc.; 11 personal letters in Yiddish written by a yeshiva student; Six passport photos of a yeshiva student [in an envelope with Chinese writing]; ledger with a complete handwritten dictionary – English-Yiddish; newspaper clippings; three shechita ordination certificates printed on photo paper issued in Shanghai [1946 and 1949] and more.
About 50 pieces of paper.
Overall fine condition.