Notebook of the Office of Rebbe Ya'akov Halberstam of Tschakowa (Ciacova) – USA, 1945-1949

Notebook with contact information, of the office of Rebbe Ya'akov Halberstam of Tschakowa. Printed leaves completed by hand with various details, requests and names for prayers and blessings, in the handwriting of the Rebbe and his assistants. USA, [c. 1945-1949].
Printed leaves titled "Notes for the Holy Sites in the Holy Land" – with place to fill in various details for keeping contact with the many people who applied for his assistance: Times of arrival, letter dates and the subject of their requests [Inscriptions of details: births and deaths of relatives, marriages and marital peace, illnesses and cures, arrival of relatives after war, wealth and poverty, purchase of assets and their sale, etc.]; the rebbes they contacted in the past, the amount they paid for “pidyon”, the gifts they received (souvenirs from Jerusalem and ma’ot shemira), their language and addresses for maintaining contact and for sending receipts.
Rebbe Ya’akov Halberstam of Tschakowa (1897-1968), son of Rabbi Sinai the Rebbe of Żmigród, (son of Rabbi Baruch of Gorlice, son of the author of the Divrei Chaim) son-in-law of Rebbe Shalom of (Shotz) Suceava. From 1925 he served as Av Beit din of Tschakowa. In 1934, he dreamed of the approaching Holocaust, left the rabbinate and immigrated to Jerusalem, there he established his Beit Midrash. During the Holocaust he was in the US and was very active in the Vaad HaHatzala and in Kiruv. After the the Holocaust he returned to Israel to his wife and children but resided in the US during most of the year. His sons are the famous Torah scholars Rabbi Moshe Halberstam and Rabbi Naftali Halberstam the Rebbi of Tschakowa, one of the heads of the Eda HaCharedit.
Approximately 220 leaves, 24 cm. Fair condition, wear and fungus. Bound with metal binder rings (without the binder covers).