Long letter by Rabbi Avraham Dov Kahana Shapira, Kovno, 1938, Dvar Avraham.

Long letter by Rabbi Avraham Dov Kahana Shapira, Kovno, 1938, on his stationary.

Rabbi Avraham Dovber Kahana Shapira [1870-1943] was the rabbi of Kovno and author of Shu"t Dvar Avraham. He was among the most prominent rabbis in his time. He studied in the Volozhin Yeshivah and was known as the "Prodigy of Kobryn." He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Yeruchem Yehudah Leib Perlman - the "Gadol of Minsk." In 1896, he was appointed rabbi of Smolavitch, where he authored both sections of his Dvar Avraham. The work was widely popular in the yeshivah worlds in Lithuania and Poland and, within a short time, its author was recognized as one of the leaders of all of European Jewry.

In [1913], at the age of 43, he was appointed rabbi of Kovno, capital of Lithuania. For about thirty years, he was tirelessly involved in the communal needs of Lithuanian Jewry. Amongst other accomplishments, he was the founder of the Agudaד HaRabbanim in Lithuania and its honorary president. He passed away in the Kovno ghetto in 1943, after a long, difficult illness.

Size: 29 x 22 cm.

Condition: Fine condition.