Letter of rabbinic ordination from Rabbi David Yehudah Silberstein of Waitzen for Rabbi Yehudah Dov Singer. Waitzen, 1932.
Rabbi David Yehudah Silberstein , may his blood be avenged (1885-Tammuz 1944; he was murdered in the Holocaust), was a son of the gaon of Waitzen, Rabbi Yeshayah, author of Ma’asei L’Melech . He studied under Rabbi Shaul Brach and Rabbi Mordechai Leib Winkler, the ‘Levush Mordechai.’ In 1915, he was rabbi of Helishtaba. In 1928, he served as dayan and moreh tzeddek in Waitzen, as an assistant to his father, and in 1935, he succeeded his father.
Rabbi Yehudah Dov Singer [1907-1971] was rabbi of Waitzen and primary disciple of the mighty gaon Rabbi Akiva Sofer, author of Da’at Sofer of Pressburg. He was a rabbi of the Budapest community and later in Waitzen, Hungary. After the Holocaust, he ascended to the Land of Israel, where he served for a short time as rabbi of Moshav Beit Meir, then as rabbi of Givat Shmuel for 18 years.
[1] leaf, official stationery. 28×22 cm. Fine condition.