Letters Sent to Rabbi Yosef Lipman Gurwitz of Australia

Letters and telegrams from the archive of Rabbi Yosef Lipman Gurwitz, Rabbi in Melbourne, Australia. Letters on matters of Gittin and kashrut, concerning rescue of Holocaust refugees, etc. Among the writers and signatures: rabbis and dayanim, public figures and private people from Eretz Israel, Lithuania (Vilna rabbis and institutes), Europe and Australia. [Ca. 1935-1948].
· Letters signed by rabbis: Rabbi Yosef HaLei Av Beit Din of Jaffa and members of the Tel Aviv Beit Din; Rabbi Avraham Nissan Yaffe, Vilna; Rabbi Chaim Moshe, a preacher in Vilna (regarding the institute Ma'achal Kasher founded by Rabbi Chaim Ozer for the yeshiva students in the city); Rabbi Ya'akov Rudnik, mashgiach of nikur and kashrut in Vilna; Rabbi David Yitzchak Molier, Buenos Aires; Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Ben-Menachem and members of the Petach Tikva Beit Din; Rabbi Avraham Leib Zilberman, Safed; Rabbi Yehuda Frankel of Komarno, Tel Aviv; Rabbi Yitzchak Yedidya Frankel, Tel Aviv; Rabbi Avraham Zvi Shachor, Jerusalem; and others.
· Telegrams from the time of the Holocaust - correspondence with Va'ad HaYeshivot and with Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Herzog. Concerning fundraising for the yeshivas in Eretz Israel and for war refugees.
Rabbi Yosef Lipman Gurwitz (1885-1957), was an outstanding Lithuanian Torah scholar and one of the founders of the Tze'irei Yisrael Union in Vilna [one of the first Charedi organizations and a stepping stone to the establishment of Agudat Yisrael in the beginning of the 1920s. Members of the organization established the Yavne education system in Lithuania and represented the Charedim in the elections for the leadership of Lithuanian communities]. In 1932, Rabbi Gurwitz immigrated to Australia and served in the Melbourne rabbinate. He was one of the leading Australian rabbis and exchanged halachic correspondence with many great rabbis in his times [on the issue of agunot and Holocaust agunot, kashrut, etc]. He was very active on behalf of yeshiva all over the world, especially during World War II. This collection of letters attests to these efforts.
22 letters and 25 telegrams. Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.