Letter by the
Akeidas Yitzchak.
Alexander, Poland 1939
Appeal to Rescue a Student from Polish draft
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Autographed letter by the holy Admor of Alexander, Rabbi Yitzchak Menachem Danziger Hy”d to Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, Av Beis Din in Jerusalem.
In this letter, the Admor implores the Maharitz Dushinsky to urgently obtain an immigration certificate for a Polish bachur and to accept him into his yeshivah in Jerusalem in order to “Rescue him from the dangers hanging above his head, desecrating Shabbos and eating forbidden foods”—a reference to the Polish draft.
The Admor Rabbi Yitzchak Menachem of Alexander Hy”d (1880-1942) was one of the great Chassidic masters in prewar Poland, and author of Akeidas Yitzchak. In 1924, he was crowned Admor of Alexander which at the time was the second-largest Chassidus in all of Poland.
Rabbi Yitzchak Menachem was a disciple of both his grandfather, the Admor Rabbi Yechiel of Alexander, founder and progenitor of the Alexander Chassidus, and his uncle the Yismach Yisrael. During World War Two, he was one of the privileged few to receive an immigration certificate to Eretz Yisrael, yet he nobly refused to abandon his chassidim in the inferno. He suffered hunger and privation for two years in the Warsaw Ghetto and was then deported to Treblinka. Many tales of miracles and wonders that he engendered on behalf of others, healing the sick and bringing children to the barren, were published in Ro’eh Ne’eman.
Alexander, 1939. Autographed on personal stationery. Page size: 14×21 cm. Good condition.
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