An Autograph Album – Mrs. Farha Feuchtwanger (Sassoon) – Dedication from Rabbi Elchonon Bunem Wasserman of Baranovichi

An Autograph Album – Mrs. Farha Feuchtwanger (Sassoon) – Dedication from Rabbi Elchonon Bunem Wasserman of Baranovichi
Exquisite autograph album, with dedications and autographs to Mrs. Farha Feuchtwanger Sassoon. England and India, 1930s-1950s.
On the album binding are embossed in gold the initials F.S. – initials of Mrs. Farha Sassoon (1914-2000) – daughter of the well-known collector Rabbi David Sassoon and Selina Sassoon (neé Prinz), granddaughter of Indian-English businesswoman, scholar and philanthropist Farha (Flora) Sassoon (named after her). Sassoon studied Gemara, together with her brother and later on by herself, with Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler. Married Rabbi Asher Feuchtwanger. Died in London and was buried at the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery.
In the album appear autographs and dedications from rabbis, heads of Yeshivot, Jewish sages, scholars, bibliographers, authors, and others, who visited the Sassoon family in London.
A dedication written by Rabbi Elchonon Bunem Wasserman of Baranovichi appears on one of the leaves. Rabbi Wasserman writes: “I bless her… with peace, happiness… Elchnon Bunem Wasserman of Baranovichi, Tuesday, Tishrei 13 ‘34” [Hebrew].
Among the dignitaries whose autographs appear in the album are: Moshe Meir (Mauritz) Printz and his wife Ema Roselia, Avraham Ya’ari, Bezalel Roth, David Yellin and his wife, Rabbi Dr. Binyamin Menashe Levine, Avraham Marmerstein, Rabbi Binyamin Ze’ev Jacobsohn of Copenhagen, Rabbi Elhanan son of Nathan Hacohen Adler, Eliyahu son of Rabbi Meir Zvi Jung, Naftali son of Yona Bundi, Rabbi Menachem M. Kasher, Rabbi Shmuel Daiches, Rabbi Dr. Yekutiel Ya’akov Neubauer, Zvi Meir Lazarus, Rabbi Yoel Leib Halevi Herzog and his son Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Halevi Herzog, Rabbi Meir Hildesheimer son of Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer, Rabbi Eliyahu Hacohen Munk, Rabbi Haim Heller, Rabbi Simcha Assaf, Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky, Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman, Rabbi Yitzchak Halevi Horowitz, representative of the Rebbe of Lubavitch, Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Avraham Alkalai Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia, Rabbi Zvi ben Binyamin Oppenheimer and his wife, Rabbi Meir Berlin, Rabbi Israel Halberstam, Shmuel Krois, Lehman-Wallerstein family members, Shlomo Rozovsky, a nice painting in watercolor (on a whole page) created by Hermann Struck, Nahum Sokolow and his wife, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Meislish, Av-Beit-Din of Bergen-Belsen (1946), autograph by S.Y. Agnon on a note, Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin, Rabbi David Feldman of Leipzig and Manchester as well as autographs by Sassoon family members.
Ca. [56] leaves with autographs, Album: 23.5X18 cm, in the original cloth pouch. Some detached leaves. Papers in different colors. Gilt edges.