Thirteen letters from Rabbi Moshe Bleuya

Thirteen letters from Rabbi Moshe Bleuya

13 letters printed on a typewriter and signed by Rabbi Moshe Bleuya - the leader of the Haredi community in Jerusalem. Most of the letters from the years 1931-1932, a number of letters from 1941.

Among the letters that appear: Letters regarding power struggles over the "Horva" synagogue between Ashkenazis and Sephardim, in one of which Rabbi Blauya accuses the Gabay of the "Horva" synagogue of "behaving rudely with us, and because as Ashkenazis we have justice for a different attitude", a recommendation to help the genius Rabbi Shmuel Tefilinsky, who is "one of the most famous and important wise students in Jerusalem, "  letters he wrote in 1941 as an activist in the "rescue plant" concerning the strengthening of the enterprise, and others.

Rabbi Moshe Uri Bleuya [1885-1946] was a student and chief assistant of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, leader of the Haredi community in Jerusalem before the establishment of the state. From 1924 he served as the director of the Jerusalem Center of Agudat Israel. Was a member of the World Executive Committee of the movement. The leader of the Haredi community in Jerusalem, one of the leaders of Agudat Israel in Eretz Israel and the editor of the Haredi newspaper Kol Yisrael. In 1946 he fell aboard a ship while on a voyage abroad as part of his work, and was dropped off at the hospital in Messina, Italy. Within days he died, and was laid to rest on the Mount of Olives nine days later.

[15] leaves. Official papers of the "Agudat Israel Center", "the Ashkenazi City Council for the Jerusalem Ashkenazim", and the "Rescue Project". Good condition.