SCHNEERSOHN, YOSEF YITZCHAK.
(Sixth Grand Rebbe of Lubavitch, 1880-1950). Typed Letter Signed, written in ...

SCHNEERSOHN, YOSEF YITZCHAK.
(Sixth Grand Rebbe of Lubavitch, 1880-1950). Typed Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead to “The Hebrew Community of Lodz.”


The Lubavitcher Rebbe beseeches the Jewish community of Lodz to donate funds in order to provide the Jews in the Soviet Union with enough flour to bake Matzah for Pesach. He writes there are thousands of requests from Jews in Russia who don’t even have enough for the minimum requirements (kezayis). He closes with a blessing for the community of Lodz.
One page. 8vo.
Riga: 23rd Adar II 1932


The Frierdiker Rebbe (the Rebbe Rayya’tz) took over his Chassidus at a time of great oppression against the Judaism in the Soviet Union. Directing clandestine activities to strengthen Torah-life, in 1927 he was arrested and sentenced to death by the Soviet authorities. Due to subsequent international pressure he was released, upon which time he moved to the Latvian capital of Riga where he resumed his outreach activities. In 1940, after a remarkable escape from war-torn Poland, the Rebbe settled in the United States where he re-established the worldwide center of Chabad-Lubavitch at 770 Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.