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Collection of letters and copies of letters from the archive of Rabbi Yosef Lipman Gurwitz, Rabbi in Melbourne, Australia. [1830s]. Most of the letters offered here are copies in the handwriting [some with the signature] of Rabbi Gurwitz, of letters he sent to Vilna to Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. The letters discuss halachic matters, public issues and charity campaigns on behalf of Russian refugees and for yeshivot. The correspondence contains information as to various missions and the contact Rabbi Gurwitz had with Rabbi Chaim Ozer of Vilna concerning various issues. · Several letters sent to Rabbi Gurwitz from various people: "Yosef Gershon Atlas", his brother "Chanoch Henach" [Gurwitz], "Zvi Ginzberg". · Stenciled letter stamped and signed by Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. Rabbi Yosef Lipman Gurwitz (1885-1957), was an outstanding Lithuanian Torah scholar. At the end of World War I, he was 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, 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]. Approximately 20 letters and copies of letters, size and condition vary.