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GRUNWALD, LEVI YITZCHAK (The Tzehlemer Ruv, 1893-1980). Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew on personal letterhead written to Rabbi Yehoshua Baumel. - Learned observations on R. Baumel's work of responsa, Emek Halacha. Two pages. New York Tuesday, Parshath Vayakhel, 1941 R. Levi Yitzchak Greenwald (1893-1980) known as the Tzelemer Rov, was the son of R. Moshe Greenwald of Chust / Chist (1853-1911), founder of Pupa Chassidism and famously, the author of Arugath Habosem. R. Levi Yitzchak served as rabbi of Tzelemer, Austria (Deutschkreutz in German). Following the Anschluss in 1938, he relocated to Williamsburg where he established one of the first Hassidic communities in that neighborhood - Congregation Arurgath Habosem.