KAMENETSKY, YA’AKOV (Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Voda’ath, Brooklyn, 1891-1986)....
KAMENETSKY, YA’AKOV (Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Voda’ath, Brooklyn, 1891-1986).
Typed Letter Signed written in Yiddish on Agudath Israel of America letterhead to World Agudath Israel headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Details food packages and other aid dispatched, and discuss a list of membership of the Agudah youth group in Jerusalem. It closes with Pesach greetings.
One page.
New York, 5th Nissan, 1952.
Fondly known as “Reb Ya’akov, ” R. Ya’akov Kamenetsky was known both for his exceptional learning and his charismatic warmth. He was of the generation of great Lithuanian rabbis who were inordinately influential upon American Orthodox Jewry in the post-war era. Dozens of his descendants serve in key education leadership positions throughout the Orthodox Jewish world.
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KAMENETSKY, YA’AKOV (Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Voda’ath, Brooklyn, 1891-1986).
Typed Letter Signed written in Yiddish on Agudath Israel of America letterhead to World Agudath Israel headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Details food packages and other aid dispatched, and discuss a list of membership of the Agudah youth group in Jerusalem. It closes with Pesach greetings.
One page.
New York, 5th Nissan, 1952.
Fondly known as “Reb Ya’akov, ” R. Ya’akov Kamenetsky was known both for his exceptional learning and his charismatic warmth. He was of the generation of great Lithuanian rabbis who were inordinately influential upon American Orthodox Jewry in the post-war era. Dozens of his descendants serve in key education leadership positions throughout the Orthodox Jewish world.
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