| Description | Letters to Gaster from Jacob Shachter, rabbi of the Roumanian Congregation, Manchester (New Roumanian Synagogue), as well as from the synagogue committee, on a range of topics including a request to the Manchester Shechita Board to employ Shachter; asking Gaster for help to obtain a passport for a member of the congregation to travel to Germany for medical treatment; a meeting at which Gaster will be chief speaker; inviting Gaster to speak on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the building of the synagogue, as well as asking him to use his influence to raise support for future building projects; sending Gaster a copy of Shachter's new book Machzeh Avraham, and asking him to review it for the Jewish Guardian; sending a poster (enclosed) which was placarded by the Beth Din of the Ashkenazic Community in Jerusalem on the occasion of the opening of the university. |