Letter by the Shevet Sofer - Fundraising for Russian Jewry After the Pogroms - Pressburg, 1882

Letter signed by R. Simcha Bunim Sofer, Rabbi and yeshiva dean of Pressburg (Bratislava), author of Shevet Sofer. Pressburg, 1882.
Letter of blessings and confirmation of receipt of donations for "our Jewish brothers who are in dire straits in Russia (may G-d have mercy on them)". The letter was sent to his student R. Mordechai Efraim Fishel Sofer, Rabbi of Kehal Yerei'im in Nagyszentmiklós. Handwritten by a scribe, the Shevet Sofer added at the end of the letter in his own handwriting: "…he who desires his success. Simcha Bunim, son of the great R. Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer".
R. Simcha Bunim Sofer (1843-1907) was the son of the "Ktav Sofer", and from 1872 his successor as rabbi of Pressburg and head of the yeshiva. A prominent rabbi in his times, he stood at the helm of Hungarian Chareidi Jewry. Most of the Hungarian rabbis of that generation were his disciples. Among his works are Responsa Shevet Sofer on the four parts of the Shulchan Aruch, Shevet Sofer - novellae on the Talmud and Talmudic topics, and Shaarei Simcha on the Torah.
The fundraising spoken of in this letter took place at a difficult time for Russian Jewry, following the assassination of Czar Alexander II, which led to a series of pogroms in 1881-1882 (these pogroms were actively encouraged by the Russian authorities in order to divert the attention of the populace from the corrupt government) and laws restricting Jewish rights (known as the May Laws).
Postcard, 14.5X9 cm. Good condition.