Description
Overview: A poignant and historically significant handwritten rabbinic appeal composed entirely within the inner flaps of a structural, pre-printed Israeli aerogram wrapper (Aerogramme / איגרת אוויר), postmarked Jerusalem, March 1964.
Author: Written and signed by Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Halevi Jungreis (רבי יצחק אייזיק הלוי יונגרייז), a prominent European-trained scholar residing in the Chabad neighborhood of the Old Yishuv/Jerusalem (Rehov RaHabad 20).
Lineage & Holocaust Connection: The author proudly signs himself as the son of the illustrious Hungarian Torah giant Rabbi Moshe Nathan Jungreis (הגה"צ רבי משה נתן יונגרייז זצוק"ל הי"ד), the revered Chief Rabbi of Tiszadebrecen who was tragically murdered in the Holocaust. The author explicitly appends the holy title הי"ד after his father’s name at the conclusion of the letter.
Content: Written in an elegant, traditional Rabbinic cursive script, Rabbi Jungreis pens an urgent, dignified appeal directed to the executive board of the famous Ezras Torah Organization in New York (addressed to 132 Nassau Street). He outlines his family lineage, his post-war displacement, and pressing domestic financial hardships, requesting rabbinic stipendiary or holiday relief.
Postal History Value: The front wrapper displays the bilingual hand-addressed English text block alongside a clear purple circular Jerusalem dispatch stamp dated 18.3.64. Crucially, it bears a red rectangular postal delivery cachet reading "Moved, left no address / Addressee unknown", indicating this moving piece of survivor correspondence initially went astray in New York before being successfully recovered and archived.
Condition report:
Status: Good Antique/Archival Condition.
Details: The aerogram is physically complete and structurally unbroken. The dark blue ink of the inner text is perfectly dark and 100% legible.
Wear: Displays natural light uniform browning and horizontal/vertical folding creases from its original postal transit. The front features a large, bold purple sorting office filing number ("21/6") written in modern blue pencil, which does not affect any of the inner handwritten rabbinic text.
