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Letter Signed by Rebbe Rabbi Baruch Yehoshua Yerahmiel Rabinowitz of Munkács. São Paulo, 1956. - Letter Signed by Rebbe Rabbi Baruch Yehoshua Yerahmiel Rabinowitz of Munkács. São Paulo, 1956. Letter signed by Rebbe Rabbi Baruch Yehoshua Yerahmiel Rabinowitz, Av Beit Din of Munkács and its environs, and son-in-law of the renowned Munkács Rebbe, Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapira. São Paulo, Brazil, 1956. The letter was written on official stationery bearing the title “Av Beit Din of Munkács and its Environs” and concerns the activities of the Mizrachi and HaPoel HaMizrachi movements in Brazil, as well as communal matters connected with their work. The letter bears the Rebbe’s autograph signature. Accompanying it are three additional typed letters sent to him in Brazil regarding the same subject. Together they form a documentary file of considerable interest for the study of Jewish communal life and Religious Zionist activity in South America during the early years of the State of Israel. Rebbe Rabbi Baruch Yehoshua Yerahmiel Rabinowitz (1895–1972) was one of the most fascinating figures in the history of Munkács Chassidism in the twentieth century. In 1937 he married the only daughter of the celebrated Munkács Rebbe Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapira, author of Minchat Elazar. Following his father-in-law’s passing that same year, he succeeded him as Rebbe of Munkács and as chief rabbi of the city. The years of the Holocaust brought him a dramatic story of flight and survival. Following the German occupation of Hungary, he escaped with members of his family and survived the devastation of European Jewry. After the war he spent time in Europe, including in displaced persons camps, where he was active on behalf of Holocaust survivors. He later settled in the United States and subsequently in Brazil, where he led a Jewish community and devoted himself to education, rabbinic leadership, and public affairs. Rabbi Rabinowitz attracted considerable attention in rabbinic and Chassidic circles due, among other things, to his positive attitude toward the Religious Zionist movement and its institutions—an uncommon position among Hungarian rebbes of his generation. The present letter, dealing with the activities of Mizrachi and HaPoel HaMizrachi, reflects an important and distinctive chapter in his postwar public career. His sons later became the present-day Rebbes of the Munkács and Dinov dynasties in the United States. An historically significant letter combining the unique personality of the postwar heir to the Munkács dynasty with rare documentation of his communal and Religious Zionist activities in Brazil during the 1950s. Autograph letter signed. Accompanied by three typed letters sent to him concerning the same matter. Condition: Good.