A photo of the leader Polish Jewry in the early 20th century, the genius Rabbi Avraham Zvi Perlmutter in his old age.

Rabbi Perlmutter's photographs are almost unknown, and they are very scarce, in particular portrait photographs in his home as seen in the photograph before us. We know of two other photographs where the genius is seen in the company of people - the one in which he is seen walking on the streets of a city next Admors, According to our known the photo was first published in a slide collection depicting pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry. In the second known photo published in the Forward newspaper, Rabbi Perlmutter looks together With seven more representatives elected to the first Polish forward in 1919. Recently, a video was published showing Maran Haifetz Chaim on his arrival at the first large knesia of Agudat Israel held in Vienna in Elul 1923, in the first seconds when the video open, The genius Rabbi Avraham Zvi Perlmutter Watched as the first to come to the conference.

Rabbi Avraham Zvi Perlmutter [1843-1930] In 1861 he began serving as rabbi in several communities in Poland and in 1866 was appointed rabbi of Radom. In 1902 he moved to Warsaw and took part in the leadership of the large Jewish community. He took the place of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Liphshitz as head of the Warsaw rabbis. In 1905, he printed his book of Responsa "Damascus Eliezer", to which is attached a agoda legend called "Land of Zvi". One of the founders of Agudat Israel. He died on the 9th of Sivan in 1930 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, near the "Hemdat of Shlomo".

Size: 14x9 cm. Photographer's ink stamp on back. Divided back to use as a postcard. Very good condition.