Letter Handwritten by Rabbi Nechemya Alter of Gur the Head of the 'Sefat Emet' Yeshiva and Brother of the 'Imrei ...

Letter Handwritten by Rabbi Nechemya Alter of Gur the Head of the 'Sefat Emet' Yeshiva and Brother of the 'Imrei Emet' – Handwritten Addition by His Son Rabbi Yehuda Alter – [The 1920's]
Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Nechemya Alter of Gur to Rabbi Yitzchak Gavriel Radzyner [of Lodz].
Jerusalem, [the 1920's].
Extremely rare! Has never been seen in auctions!
Among others, he writes: "Please inform us if there are news from the Yeshiva is Safed since C. has shown us a letter from the Union of Frankfurt…"
On the lower part of the letter, an addition of three lines handwritten and signed by his son Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib Alter (the son-in-law of Rabbi Avraham Ya'akov Yosskowitz). He perished in the Holocaust. The brother of the mother of the present Rebbe of Gur.
Rabbi Nechemya Alter (1875-1942, perished in the Holocaust), the son of the Rebbe of Gur author of 'Sefat Emet', the brother of the Rebbe author of 'Imrei Emet', the father-in-law of the Rebbe author of 'Lev Simcha' and son-in-law of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Morgenstern of Lomaz.
He was known as a Torah and kabbala genius. After World War I, he left the city of Gur and settled in Otwock. In 1925, he immigrated to the Land of Israel and lived in Safed, moving to Jerusalem in 1927 to serve as the head of the 'Sefat Emet' Yeshiva.
In 1931, he returned to Poland and was a memeber of the "Rabbis Committee" of Lodz. In 1941, he was smuggled out of the Lodz Ghetto to the Warsaw Ghetto. He perished in the Holocaust as did most of his descendants, except for his eldest daughter the Rebbetzen Yutah Henya [the mother of the present Rebbe of Gur].
Remnants of his Torah Novellae were printed in the book "Chidushei Rabbi Nechemya" (Jerusalem, 1983).
22 cm.
Condition: Very Good.