Letters from Rabbi Bengis' Archive

Letters from Rabbi Bengis' Archive
Large collection of letters sent to Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis, Ga'avad of the Edah HaCharedit in Jerusalem.
• Large bundle of letters regarding the Bukhara Get. Jerusalem, 1941. This topic caused an upheaval in the rabbinic world of those times. The Get involved an agunah who ascended from Bukhara to Jerusalem and whose husband remained behind the Iron Curtain and was not permitted to immigrate. To release his wife, the husband sent a letter instead of a Get which had many loopholes which could render it unfit. Many rabbis searched for ways to prove it kosher. See Kuntress Igeret Gerushin in Aderet Eliyahu, Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 213-250. These letters were not printed in the Kuntress.
• Halachic responsum pertaining an agunah from the Holocaust, (4 leaves) signed by Rabbi Chaim Ya'akov ben Mordechai Rottenberg Av Beit Din of Antwerp.
• Letters by US rabbis and others: Letter by Rabbi Yosef Avigdor Kessler, Los Angeles; letter by Rabbi Mordechai Zvi Shwartz, Cleveland; letter by Rabbi Elchanan Zvi Gutterman, Rabbi of Scranton and its region; letter by Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henken; etc. • Letter by Rabbi Shmuel Abba Snieg, Chairman of Va'ad Agudat HaRabbanim in the American zone of Munich, [one of the rabbis of She'erit HaPleita] regarding the well-known Munich Talmud printed by Rabbi Snieg. • Letter by Rabbi Efraim Zalman Halprin, requesting setting a day of prayer after the killing of 42 men on a convoy to Mount Scopus in 1948.
• Letters about the Holocaust: Letter by Rabbi Efraim Oshri, about his book on the Holocaust events. Letters about the book written in memory of Latvian Jewry.
Approximately 19 letters, varied size and condition.