Certificates of Appreciation and Letters of Good Wishes from the Kiev Community Notables - For the President of the ...

Certificates of Appreciation and Letters of Good Wishes from the Kiev Community Notables - For the President of the Community, Rabbi Yisrael Meisel, Upon His Departure for Eretz Israel - 1925
Collection of certificates of appreciation and letters of good wishes and farewell from various institutions and figures of the Kiev community, accorded to the president of the community, R. Yisrael Meisel, on the occasion of his immigration to Eretz Israel. Kiev, 1925.
Includes: • Letter of good wishes on a large leaf, presented by the Chevra Kaddisha in Kiev, signed by the heads of the society. • Two letters of good wishes and farewell on the official stationery of the "Religious Community in Kiev", each containing different text. One of the letters is signed by several dozen community members. The second letter is signed by both the secretary of the community and the "director of affairs and bookkeeper". • Farewell letter from the "Religious community, Kiev-Podol", signed by the members of the directorate and board. • "Remembrance of love" - letter of good wishes and farewell, signed by some 15 "members of the administration". * Letter of good wishes and farewell "in the name of Machzikei Torah". • Letter - poem in honor of the departure of "the president of the religious community in Kiev, R. Yisrael Meisel", from the "Representative of the synagogues in Shulyavka, Yisrael Aharon son of R. Shimon Luke[rman?]". • Certificate in Russian dated 1924, on the official stationery of the Kiev community, attesting that R. Yisrael Meisel had been serving as rabbi of Kiev since 1901.
8 paper items. Size varies. Overall good-fair condition. Stains, tears and wear.