GUTMACHER, ELIYAHU
Autograph Letter Signed, written in Yiddish to his son Tzvi.

Autograph Letter Signed, written in Yiddish to his son Tzvi.
Concerning family and other matters, especially relating to problems with his daughter-in-law, “let us hope that God will perform a miracle.” One page, with integral autographed address panel.

Sunday, Pekudei, Grätz: 1853.

One of the outstanding disciples of R. Akiva Eger, R. Eliyahu Gutmacher (1795-1874) was widely sought after as a “miracle worker.” Together with R. Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer he was one of the forerunners of the Chibat Tzion movement.