A pamphlet, print signed by the Grand Rabbi Yetev...
A pamphlet, print signed by the Grand Rabbi Yetev Lev & other Tzaddikim sent to Baron Wilhelm Rothschild. 1882
Historical printed letter written and publicized against the modern Hamadrich book that was published at the time without Rabbinical input and supervision , changing the layout of the Talmud, signed by many of the great Rabbinical leaders of that period.
Part of the names that appear ;
Yetev Lev Harav Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum - Sighet
Rav Chaim Sofer - Budapest
Rav Shloimeh Shapiro- Munkatch
Rav Simche Bunem - Pressburg
Rav Menachem - Deiz
Rav Shmuel Sofer - Mattersdorf
Rav Dovi Leib - Veitsen
Also at bottom of letter is a retracted approval by Rav Yehoshua Aaron Zvi Weinberger of Margaretten apologizing for not having consulted his contemporaries prior to his approval of the Hamadrich.
The letter is folded into an envelope addressed to Baron Wilhelm of Rothschild Frankfurt am Main. stamped Budapest.
Baron Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (16 May 1828 – 25 January 1901) was a banker and financier of the Frankfurt House of Rothschild.
Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild was the son of Baron Carl Mayer von Rothschild of Naples and Adelheid Hertz. He was known by some as "The Tzadik of the Rothschild House." He strongly supported many Orthodox Jewish institutions and studied in Yeshivas. He married his cousin Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild, the second oldest daughter of Anselm von Rothschild, a chief of the Vienna House of Rothschilds in 1849. The couple first resided in the Rothschild house on the Zeil (Zeilpalast), but later moved to a palace in Grüneburg, and also lived in a villa in Königstein im Taunus.[They had three daughters, two of which survived to adulthood.[Adelheid von Rothschild married her cousin Edmond James de Rothschild, while her younger sister Minna Caroline Rothschild married Maximilian Goldschmidt, who adopted the name "Goldschmidt-Rothschild" after Wilhelm Carl's death in 1901.
In 1855 von Rothschild became joint head with his brother Mayer Karl of the Frankfurt house. When his brother died in 1886, he became sole head. As he and his brother left no male heirs, the Frankfurt house was discontinued at his death.
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A pamphlet, print signed by the Grand Rabbi Yetev Lev & other Tzaddikim sent to Baron Wilhelm Rothschild. 1882
Historical printed letter written and publicized against the modern Hamadrich book that was published at the time without Rabbinical input and supervision , changing the layout of the Talmud, signed by many of the great Rabbinical leaders of that period.
Part of the names that appear ;
Yetev Lev Harav Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum - Sighet
Rav Chaim Sofer - Budapest
Rav Shloimeh Shapiro- Munkatch
Rav Simche Bunem - Pressburg
Rav Menachem - Deiz
Rav Shmuel Sofer - Mattersdorf
Rav Dovi Leib - Veitsen
Also at bottom of letter is a retracted approval by Rav Yehoshua Aaron Zvi Weinberger of Margaretten apologizing for not having consulted his contemporaries prior to his approval of the Hamadrich.
The letter is folded into an envelope addressed to Baron Wilhelm of Rothschild Frankfurt am Main. stamped Budapest.
Baron Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (16 May 1828 – 25 January 1901) was a banker and financier of the Frankfurt House of Rothschild.
Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild was the son of Baron Carl Mayer von Rothschild of Naples and Adelheid Hertz. He was known by some as "The Tzadik of the Rothschild House." He strongly supported many Orthodox Jewish institutions and studied in Yeshivas. He married his cousin Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild, the second oldest daughter of Anselm von Rothschild, a chief of the Vienna House of Rothschilds in 1849. The couple first resided in the Rothschild house on the Zeil (Zeilpalast), but later moved to a palace in Grüneburg, and also lived in a villa in Königstein im Taunus.[They had three daughters, two of which survived to adulthood.[Adelheid von Rothschild married her cousin Edmond James de Rothschild, while her younger sister Minna Caroline Rothschild married Maximilian Goldschmidt, who adopted the name "Goldschmidt-Rothschild" after Wilhelm Carl's death in 1901.
In 1855 von Rothschild became joint head with his brother Mayer Karl of the Frankfurt house. When his brother died in 1886, he became sole head. As he and his brother left no male heirs, the Frankfurt house was discontinued at his death.