RABBI YITZCHAK ISAAC SCHER, ROSH YESHIVA OF SLABODKA, LETTER OF THANKS TO R. MENDEL KREMER, CHAZAN OF THE ...

RABBI YITZCHAK ISAAC SCHER, ROSH YESHIVA OF SLABODKA, LETTER OF THANKS TO R. MENDEL KREMER, CHAZAN OF THE MACHZIKEI HADASS IN LONDON.

Letter dated 1933, thanking R. Mendel Kremer for his generous donation to the Slabodka Yeshiva and describing the suffering of the Jewish community in pre-WWII Lithuania. ‘In the current difficult times, when all aid has ceased due to the international crisis, any support that enables this holy institution to exist is especially important.’

Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Scher (1875-1952), a disciple of Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebowitz in Halusk and in Volozhin, before becoming a close disciple and son-in-law of Rabbi Nassan Tzvi Finkel of Slabodka. He later became an assistant head of the Yeshiva, and from 1921 head of its Kollel. After the emigration of his father-in-law to Eretz Yisrael in 1925, Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Scher became head of the Slabodka Yeshiva – together with Rabbi Avraham Grodzenski. At the outbreak of WWII, he was in Switzerland for medical reasons, and thus was saved. He arrived in Eretz Yisrael in 1941, setting up a Kollel in Yerushalayim and re-establishing the Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak in 1952.

1 side. 22 x 29 cm. Condition generally good.