Copies of papers relating to Rabbi Chaim Zundel Maccoby

Scope and Content

Copies of letters, 1885-1957, from Lithuania, Russia and Paris; correspondents include Isaac Rabinowitz, Jacob Laustein, J.Goldberg, H.E.Luxemburg, J.Arlowitz, Dr H.Adler, the Hambro Synagogue and the Mountain Breeze House, Mount Freedom, New Jersey; other papers, including a certificate permitting the Kamenitzer Maggid to teach Jewish religious subjects, 1884, receipts, telegrams, a naturalisation certificate, together with extracts from newspapers and magazines with information on the Kamenitzer Maggid.

Administrative / Biographical History

Copies of papers relating to Rabbi Chaim Zundel Maccoby (1858- 1916), preacher (Maggid) of Kamenets (Kamenets-Podolski, Ukraine) known as the 'Kamenitzer Maggid'.

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