Letter of Semicha - Rabbi Yosef Asher Pollack Rabbi of Verpelet

Letter of Semicha - Rabbi Yosef Asher Pollack Rabbi of Verpelet
Autograph letter signed by R. Yosef Asher Pollack. Verpelet, 1939.
Semicha for the rabbinate, for R. Zalman Sofer son of R. Shimon Sofer Rabbi of Erlau.
R. Yosef Asher HaLevi Pollack (1898-1944), Rabbi and head of the Verpelet Yeshiva, one of the leading young heads of yeshiva in Hungary. His first marriage was with the daughter of R. Yehuda Altman Rabbi of Mezocsat and after she died he married the widow of R. Shalom Dov Fishel of Verpelet in 1923 and was appointed rabbi and head of the yeshiva. He was murdered in the Holocaust. A few of his manuscripts were printed in the book She'erit Yosef Asher which was printed in Eretz Israel by the Association of the Disciples of the Verpelet Yeshiva. The synagogue She'erit Yosef Asher in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem was built in his memory.
The recipient of the semicha: R. Shlomo Zalman Sofer-Schreiber (1896-1965), son of R. Shimon Sofer Rabbi of Erlau, author of Hitorerut Teshuva and grandson of the author of the Ktav Sofer. An outstanding Torah scholar, who all his life avoided a rabbinic position in spite of his profound Torah knowledge. In 1938 after the Anschluss (annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany), he fled his city of Vienna to the home of his illustrious father in Erlau and later moved to Eretz Israel. He lived in Bnei Brak and was one of the founders of the "Ohel Shimon - Erlau" Yeshiva headed by his nephew the Erlau Rebbe. His writings were printed in the book "Maharaz Sofer - Responsa and Novellae", (Jerusalem, 1969).
Official stationery. 30 cm. 25 handwritten lines. Fair condition. Tears to folding creases.