Two Documents Signed by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld - Jerusalem, 1926

Two Documents Signed by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld - Jerusalem, 1926
Two documents signed by R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, rabbi of the Eida Chareidit in Jerusalem. 1926.
1. Letter from the deans of the "Ohel Moshe in the Beit Midrash of… Maharil Diskin" yeshiva, addressed to R. Yitzchak [---], emissary of the yeshiva in the United States. Jerusalem, Av 1926.
Two typewritten pages, ending with stamped signatures of the yeshiva deans, R. "Yitzchak Shlomo Blau" and R. "David Baharan" and of R. "Eliyahu Kletzkin" president of the yeshiva. Between the stamps, the handwritten signature (in black ink) of R. "Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld", president of the yeshiva.
[1] leaf (written on both sides), official stationery. 29 cm. Good-fair condition. Wear to folds and margins. Filing holes.
2. Printed marriage certificate of the "Council of the Ashkenasic Jewish Community". Filled-in by hand, recording the marriage of the groom Shmuel Gelerinter son of R. Eliezer M., to the bride Golda Ruchama Gayerman daughter of R. Yitzchak, from the Batei Warsaw neighborhood in Jerusalem. With an authorization signed by the rabbi who officiated at the wedding, R. "Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld". Signed by the secretary of the Beit Din: "R. Aryeh Mordechai Goldberg" and the secretary of council: R. "Baruch Reuven Shlomo HaLevi Jungreis". Jerusalem, Adar 1926.
[1] leaf, official document. 38 cm. Fair-good condition, wear and minor tears. Folding marks and stains.
R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1849-1932), spiritual leader of Orthodox Jewry in Eretz Israel. Outstanding Torah scholar, a wise and holy man. Disciple of the Ketav Sofer in the Pressburg yeshiva, and of R. Avraham Schag Rabbi of Kobersdorf. He immigrated to Jerusalem in 1873 together with his teacher R. Avraham Schag, and was renowned as one of its leading Torah scholars. He was also reputed for his righteousness and holiness, and was zealously involved in communal and charity matters, operating with great wisdom. When R. Yehoshua Leib Diskin immigrated to Jerusalem in 1879, R. Yosef Chaim cleaved to him, becoming his close disciple and head of his Beit Din. He was the Maharil's right-hand man in the battle against the Christian mission and the Haskala movement, which threatened the old Yishuv in Jerusalem. In 1919-1921, the separate community of Eida HaChareidit of Ashkenazi communities was established, and R. Yosef Chaim was appointed the first rabbi of the Eida HaChareidit earning the title of Mara D'Ara DeYisrael.