An archive of letters and telegrams on communal Jewish matters of the rabbi and communal activist Rabbi Zvi Dov Eisner. Correspondence on the topic of the settlement of Agudat Yisrael written and signed by Rabbi Moshe Blau and Rabbi Dushinsky and a letter signed by Joseph P. Kennedy. Israel and America, 1920s-40s. [26]
Rabbi Zvi Dov Eisner (b. 1864) was a communal activist and one of the founders of the Jewish community in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In addition to his communal activism, Rabbi Zvi Dov was a Torah scholar and wrote novellae on halachah and aggadah. This archive contains extensive correspondence of Rabbi Eisner regarding land that he purchased in order to establish the “Machaneh Yisrael” settlement of Agudat Yisrael in the Galilee, a telegram about their meeting with “Kook” and “Magnes” and other communal matters.
* A letter to Rabbi Eisner, signed by Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969), the patriarch of the famous Kennedy family and father of the president John F. Kennedy, many of whose children and grandchildren died unnatural deaths. Kennedy the patriarch, a businessman and tremendously rich man with great influence on American public opinion, was known in the 1930s as a supporter of the Nazi regime in Germany and for his anti-Semitic sentiments. In the 1932 elections Kennedy supported Franklin D. Roosevelt, and when he was elected he became a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, it was in this capacity that he wrote his letter to Rabbi Eisner.
Full description of the archive:
26 different items, among them official personal letters, telegrams, and receipts that were sent to Rabbi Eisner.
[6] letters, official paper of the World Agudat Yisrael Federation, signed by Yaakov Rosenheim, 1942.
[4] letters, official paper of Merkaz Agudat Yisrael, signed by Rabbi Moshe Blau, 1939-1940.
[2] A letter and postcard in the handwriting of Rabbi Moshe Blau, both of them on paper of The Paris Hotel, 1940.
[4] Letters, paper of the Horowitz Bros. & Margareten Matza factory, signed by Rabbi Levi Segal Horowitz, 1931.
[6] Postcards, receipts, and letters signed by Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky and Rabbi Moshe Blau, 1938.
[1] letter, official paper of the Merkaz L’Agudat Yisrael Frankfurt, signed by Dr. Oppenheimer, 1926.
[1] Official document, the British court of law in Jerusalem, 1920s.
[1] Telegram, Jerusalem, 1935.
[1] Letter, official paper of the Securities and Exchange Commission, signed by Joseph P. Kennedy, 1935.
General fine condition.