Archive of letters, composed of dozens of letters and postcards, New Year cards and various paper items. Sent to Jerusalem, to Rabbi Zvi Moskowitz. C. 1950s-1960s.
The collection contains many letters by rabbis and rebbes in Eretz Israel. Most of the letters are about printing and purchase of books. The recipient is Rabbi Zvi Moskowitz - The Printer from Margarethen (c. 1900-1910 - 1983), an exceptional Torah scholar, Chassid and Kabbalist, disciple of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Weinberger Av Beit Din of Margarethen. Close to the Belz and Mukacheve Rebbes, and the Nadvorne and the Kumrana Rebbes, editor and author. He printed books in the city of Margarethen (Romania) between 1937-1947 and ascended to Jerusalem in 1947, there he printed and sold books. Authored dozens of books. Edited and published over 300 issues of the Torah compilation Otzrot Yerushalayim during 1956-1983. He was an authority on examining and editing Torah literature [he was the head editor of the Da'at Sofer books by the Rabbi of Pressburg], and he edited the novellae and books of many Hungarian rabbis and rebbes in Eretz Israel.
Among the writers: Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Tirnauer of Sefad, Av Beit Din Schotz [ author of Tal Orot, father-in-law of the Nadvorne Rebbe in Safed] - (9 letters); Rebbe Eliezer Ze'ev Rosenbaum of Rachów (2 letters and a wedding invitation); Rabbi Shmuel Meir HaCohen Hollander [Rabbi in Tschernowitz and later in Tel Aviv, author of the Shem Cohen res] - (4 letters); Rabbi Avraham Baruch Rosenberg Av Beit Din of Solitza and Gamzu (7 letters); Rabbi David ben Zion Klein Av Beit Din of Yesodot; Rabbi Yeshaya Sneiblag Av Beit Din of Deyzh; Rabbi Asher Ze'ev Werner Av Beit Din of Tiberias; Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig Diskin Av Beit Din of Pardess Chana, (6 letters); Rabbi Bezalel Stern [author of B'tzel HaChochma] (2 letters); Rabbi Yehoshua Segal Deutch Av Beit Din of Montevideo and Katamon (2 letters); Rabbi David Wein Av Beit Din of Holon; Rabbi Yisrael Aryeh Zalmanowitz Av Beit Din of Bergen-Belsen and Yavneh (2 letters); letters from the home of the Kretchnif Rebbe in Kiryat Ata; invitations to meetings of the Niturei Karta signed by Rabbi Amram Blau; calling card of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Kopychyntsi with handwritten additions (perhaps his own); etc.
Approximately 90 paper items, more than 80 letters. Varied size and condition, good-fair to poor. Some letters have major moisture damages.