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LOT 227:
Rare Picture of the Two Righteous Brothers of Vizhnitz
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Rare Picture of the Two Righteous Brothers of Vizhnitz
Picture of the two brothers - the Admo"rs of Vizhnitz, Rabbi Eliezer Hager, author of Damesek Eliezer, and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager of Vishova, sons of the author of Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz. [Eastern Europe, 1930s?]
Original photograph of the two brothers standing at an open window - possibly of a train.
The Admo"r Rabbi Eliezer Hager was the author of Damesek Eliezer of Vizhnitz [1891-1946], son of the Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz, and son-in-law Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Heschel of Kopycznitz. He was appointed Av Beit Din of Vizhnitz in 1920, and after his father's passing in 1936, he began to serve as an Admo"r. He fled Vizhnitz in 1940 when it was captured by the Russians, and settled in Temshvar. He sent food packages to Jews who were exiled to the swamps of Transylvania and were starving there. To this purpose, he sold all of his possessions, including his watch. He was very active in communal matters and rescuing Jews from the Holocaust. He ascended to the Land of Israel in 1944 and lived in Tel Aviv where he reestablished the Vizhnitz yeshivah.
The Admo"r Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager [1885-1941] was the eldest son of the Admo"r the 'Ahavat Yisrael' of Vizhnitz. He served as a lecturer at his father's yeshivah in Vizhnitz. In 1908, he was appointed rabbi of Vizhnitz. With the outbreak of WWI, he joined his father and the rest of the family who moved to Grosswardein (Ordea) in Transylvania. In 1921, he was appointed rabbi of the town of Vishova in the Maramureş region of Transylvania and led the yeshivah there. This yeshivah was the largest in all of Romania at the time, and numbered about 400 students at its apex. After his father's passing in 1936, he began to conduct himself as an Admo"r, and was known as the Admo"r of Vishova. He became ill in 1941, eventually passing away from this illness a short while later. His remains were transferred for reinterment in the Land of Israel, and he is buried in the section for the Admo"rs of Vizhnitz in Bnei Brak.
It's possible this photograph is part of a slightly larger photograph, but in any case the photograph is clearly focusing on the two tzaddikim.
Approximately 6x10 cm. Uneven page cropping.
Moderate condition. Creases.
