Long Letter Handwritten by Rabbi Avraham Dobver Kahana Shapira – Contains a Religious Commentary – Kovno, 1936

Long letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Avraham Dobver Kahana Shapira to Rabbi Aharon Milevsky Av Beit Din of Alytus. Kovno, Kislev, 1936.
The content of the letter: a request for help for a Jew, citizen of Kovna, whose life is in danger. The letter also contains a short religious matter.

Written on official stationery on both sides of the leaf (30 lines).
Rabbi Avraham Dobver Kahana Shapira (1871-1943), author of "Devar Avraham" and one of the most prominent rabbis and religious leaders of Lithuania. The son of Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana Shapira and the son-in-law of Rabbi Yerucham Yehuda Leib Perlman of Minsk. A student of the Volozhin Yeshiva. He was the last Chief Rabbi of Lithuania. In 1924, he travelled to the USA on the well-known Rabbis' Journey together with Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Ha'Cohen Kook and Rabbi Moshe Epstein.
Rabbi Avraham was in Switzerland for health reasons before the war broke out, yet returned to Kovno, stating emphatically, "The captain is the last to abandon his sinking ship, not the first. At this time of danger, my place is with the people of my city. I am going to Kovno." He died of an illness in the Kovno Ghetto in 1943.

22x28 cm.
Condition: Fair-Good. Tears with no damage to text.