Auction 79
THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY: FURTHER SELECTIONS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTION. * HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA. * GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART
Nov 16, 2018
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LOT 172:
SCHNEERSON, MOUSSIA (CHAYA-MUSHKA)
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Sold for: $4,000
Estimated price:
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(Wife of the seventh Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson. 1901-88). Autograph Letter Signed to Necha Rivkin of Jerusalem
(formerly of Rostov, later of New York and wife of Rabbi Moshe Dov-Ber Rivkin of Yeshivath Torath Emeth in Jerusalem and later, Torah Voda’ath of New York). Written entirely in Russian, concerning her upcoming wedding. “I have been in Warsaw now for ten days and am very busy with wedding preparations… I am here with my mother and it is now late on Motzei Shabbos, the wedding will be on Tuesday.”
Postcard-size, densely written on both sides.
Warsaw: 24th November (1928)
The second of the three daughters of the Friediker Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson (1880-1950), and wife to R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-94), who succeeded his father-in-law’s title as Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1951.===Writes to her life-long friend, Necha Rivkin, emphasizes how close she feels to her and her family. Notes that all members of Rebbetzin Chaya-Moushka’s family arrive to Warsaw on Monday (the day before her wedding), and that on Wednesday, the family will return to Riga.
