
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
An English elegy on the death of the much Lamented Death of R. Nosson Adler's rebbe
Here's a fantastic item. This sheet is what it says it is: an elegy printed upon the death of R. David Tevele Schiff, Chief Rabbi of the Duke's Place Synagogue in London. As the post title indicates, R. Tevele Schiff was the rabbi of R. Nosson Adler, who was of course the revered rebbe of the Chasam Sofer.
This ephemeral piece is reproduced from Arthur B. Hyman's A collection of Anglo-Jewish ephemera in Jewish Historical Studies, Vol. 33, (1992-1994), pp. 97-123:

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