Letter by the Waitzen Gaon, Author of Shevilei David

Letter by the Waitzen Gaon, Author of Shevilei David
Long interesting letter [4 pages], sent to R. Elazar Lev, Rabbi of Ujhely (Ohel). Waitzen (Vác), [c. 1880s].
The letter is about coping with the leadership of a community which has Reform leanings and which places obstacles before the rabbi in his efforts to spread Torah and fear of Heaven.
The letter is not signed and was written with a shaky hand (apparently, due to the advanced age of the writer), and sent from the city of Waitzen. A note added to the letter at a later time (written with a ballpoint pen) reads that this is a "Letter by R. Yeshaya Zilberstein Rabbi of Waitzen". However, it is more reasonable to believe that the letter was written by his father R. David Yehuda Zilberstein, author of Shevilei David, who had previously served in the Ujhely (Ohel) rabbinate and he sent the letter to his friend R. Eliezer Lev (1839-1910) who served in the Ujhely rabbinate during 1874-1888, before he repositioned to the Uzhhorod (Ungvar) rabbinate in 1888.
R. David Yehuda Leib Zilberstein (1820-1884), a leading Hungarian rabbi, disciple of R. Meir Ash and of R. Kopel Charif. During 1859-1870, he was in Jerusalem and began to print his famous books Shevilei David. He served in the rabbinates of Ohel, Senta, Deutschkreutz (Kerestur) and Waitzen and headed the Orthodox rabbinical organizations in Uzhhorod. His son was the famous R. Yeshaya Zilberstein (1857-1930), author of Ma'ase L'Melech who succeeded his father in the Waitzen rabbinate.
[4] pages, 39.5 cm. Good condition. Small open tear affecting several words to the margins of the first pages, restored with paper filling.