Letter by the Rabbis and Leaders of the Communities of the Duchy of Parma, Italy – Hand-Signed by Them, 1758 – with ...

Letter by the Rabbis and Leaders of the Communities of the Duchy of Parma, Italy – Hand-Signed by Them, 1758 – with the Signature of the Chief Rabbi of the Duchy Rabbi Shmuel Zecharya ben Rabbi Eliezer Raveena – Interesting, Important and Rare
A printed letter with the handwritten signatures of the leaders of the communities of the duchy of Parma and its Chief Rabbi Rabbi Shmuel Zecharya Raveena. [1758].
A reply letter by the committee of the communities of the duchy of Parma, which were required to pay for the right to live in the cities of the duchy an amount of 600,000 Italian Lira and were threatened by exile.
In the letter, they ask the Italian communities to help the,. The money should be sent to a resident of Reggio in the county of Modena.
Hand-signed by the following:
The Chief Rabbi of the duchy rabbi Shmuel Zecharya Raveena.
The "people in charge": Rabbi Avraham Michael the son of Rabbi Chaim Fontanela and Rabbi Aharon Azarya the son of Mordechai Levi.
The members of the "small committee": Rabbi David Fontanela, Rabbi azriel Sforno, Rabbi Moshe Zalman Suaby, Rabbi Yehuda Matzliach and Rabbi Moshe Chaim Fanzi.
[The letter and the background of its writing appear in the book 'Toldot ha'Yehudim Be'Dukasut mantova", first section, Jerusalem 1965, pp. 330-331]
4pp. 34.5cm.
Condition: Good. Thick paper. Slight wrinkles and tears in the margins and folds.