Booklet by the Chief Rabbi of Alexandria, Addressed to the Soldiers of the Zion Mule Corps, 1915 / Visiting Card ...

Booklet by the Chief Rabbi of Alexandria, Addressed to the Soldiers of the Zion Mule Corps, 1915 / Visiting Card with a Handwritten Letter by the Chief Rabbi of Cairo to the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Legion, 1918
1. "Souvenir, the Jewish Community in Alexandria to the Jewish Military Men Serving Beneath the Flag of the Enlightened British Government", by Rafael de la Pergola. Alexandria, 1915.
Booklet with a kind of "moral code" for the Jewish soldier in foreign armies: the soldier's duties, his relation to his commanders, protecting his own life and his Biblical heritage. Presumably distributed to the soldiers of the Zion Mule Corps during the swearing-in ceremony by the author – the Chief Rabbi of Alexandria Rafael de la Pergola.
7 pp, 13 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes. Handwritten inscription on margins of title page. Bound in a new binding, with no cover.
2. Visiting card of the Chief Rabbi of Egypt Rafael Aaron ben Shimon, with a letter in his hand to the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Legion Isaac Lev Falk. Dated by hand, May 24, 1918.
"I have received your invitation to come to the soldiers' camp to see the exercise tomorrow at 2/4… I thank you for this honor. However, it has not been specified where the exercise will take place? and what the name of the place is? and where it is?... I also do not know when is 'tomorrow', if tomorrow is the Holy Sabbath… to go by foot on the Holy Sabbath will be a profanation… please answer my questions well and I am prepared to serve Your Honor".
Approx. 5X9.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes. Peeling to margins, with slight damage to inscription (some letters corrected by hand).
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.