Auction 093 Kodesh books, Rabanic manuscripts, Zionism, Erez Israel. Judaica, archaeology and Jewish art
Apr 5, 2016
Israel
 3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem
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LOT 26:

Unique collection of rare letters: rabbis, writers, prominent communal leaders, and Zionists from Europe, America ...


Start price:
$ 3,000
Estimated price:
$5,000 - $6,000
Auction house commission: 20%
VAT: 17% On commission only
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Unique collection of rare letters: rabbis, writers, prominent communal leaders, and Zionists from Europe, America and Israel from the 19th and 20th centuries.
A large and unique collection of rare letters which includes more than 200 letters of rabbis, writers, prominent communal leaders, Zionists and on the topic of the synagogue and charity from Europe, America and Israel from the 19th and 20th centuries.
* Letters on the topic of Zionism and the Mizrachi: A letter from the Zionist leader Rabbi Dr Yehoshua Thon, Cracow, 1924. A letter from Rabbi Yehuda Leib Zlotnik, the President of the Mizrachi and the chairman of the Federation in Canada, 1933. Letters and correspondence of the Mizrachi in Vilna, 1904, the Mizrachi in Israel, in Poland, Lvov, Argentina, America and Great Britain – 1920s-50s, and more.
*Letters in the handwriting and with the signatures of rabbis: Rabbi Zvi Yehuda HaCohen Kook, Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Chohen and Rabbi Rafael HaCohen Kook. Long letters to Rabbi Chaim Heller the Talmudic researcher and more.
*Letters from writers and researchers: A long letter of S.Y Agnon, letters in the Kaiser's name regarding the publishing of a book by the writer Baron David Gunzburg. Avraham Eliyahu Harkavy, M.D Cassuto [5], the bibliographer Chaim David Friedberg [2], a letter from Professor Avraham Yehoshua Heschel to Binyamin Mintz, letters in German and in Hebrew from Struck [3], a collection of letters from the rabbi and researcher Shmuel Klein [6], the writer Shimon Zaks, a collection of Hebrew poetry from Rabbi Dr. Hillel Medalia, M. Gur-Aryeh, Rabbi Shlomo Elberg to the members of the congress delegates in Vienna, and more. 
* Many letters on the topic of charity boxes, money collecting and yeshivot, including: Shivtei Yisrael Synagogue, Old Age Home in Russia, and synagogues at the beginning of the century in America. The accounts of the income of the Odessa community from 1899, the accounts of a publishing house in Vilna, 1926, the printer Shlomo Bilforti, Livorno and more.
 
The letters are arranged in an album. Their condition varies from fine to very fine.