Document in which King George II appoints Harry Lane as Consul to “Our Province New York in America.” St. James’ Court, 22.5.1733.
Description: [2] pages. 19X30 cm. Includes [3] postage stamps, and residuum of a wax seal.
King George II (1683-1760) was born in Germany. He moved to England upon his father’s appointment as king of England and Ireland in 1714, an event which earned him the title King George I. Upon his father’s death in 1727, George II was appointed king of England and Ireland at the age of 43. He participated in the “War of the Austrian Succession,” and was the last English king to lead his army into battle. Like his father, he ruled the American colonies through royal governors and their consuls. In 1732 he appointed William Cosby (1690-1736) as the Royal Governor in New York, who recommended Harry Lane for the position of Consul. Upon the royal deputation letter’s arrival on 29.9.1733, Lane was indeed appointed to this position.
Harry Lane (d. 1744) was a well-known merchant, and son of the mayor of London. He moved to New York in 1710, and was a member of the Council of Consuls in 1733-1744.
C ondition: Fine. With fold marks and aging stains. Two tears on the upper side, one reaching the letters beginning the king’s first name.
Operation order to the soldiers of the Allied Expeditionary Force for the great invasion, by their commander, General Eisenhower. [Portsmouth, England], 1944.
Specifications : [1] leaf, official paper, with the forces’ emblem at the document’s top, and a print of the general’s handwritten signature at the document’s bottom. 15X23 cm.
Backgrou nd: The operations order before us was issued prior to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion Normandy’s shores, occupied France, on 6.6.1944. It was the largest maritime landing in history, in which more than 150,000 fighters participated. The invasion was intended to break through the Atlantic wall, to open a second front against Germany (the “Western Front”) while establishing a foothold on French soil. The invasion marked the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany.
“Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is the year 1944 ! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned ! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory ! I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good Luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”
Eisenhower began drafting the operations order shortly after taking office in February 1944, and it was given to the fighters who were to participate in the invasion on June 5, 1944, before they left for action. The original version of the operations order is in Kansas at the Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) , was a general who served in World War II as the Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He was the 34th President of the United States (1953-1961).
Condition: Moderate-fine. Fold marks, tiny tears along fold marks, few small stains without damage to text.
Letter from General Eisenhower, later president of the United States: “I sincerely hope that your battle for health will soon be won,” greetings to patients hospitalized in Amsterdam. Headquarters of the US forces in Europe, 1945.
Specifications: [1] leaf, stationery of the Office of the Commanding General. Printed letter, with Eisenhower’s handwritten signature. 14X20 cm.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) was a general and the 34th president of the United States (1953-1961). During the Second World War he was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe.
Condition: Very fine condition, fold marks.
Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to the executive chairman of the International Philatelists Convention regarding stamp collecting. The White House, Washington, 1939.
Specifications: [1] leaf, stationery. Printed letter with his signature. 17X22 cm.
Content: The president notes that “few hobbies make richer returns to their devotees than stamp collecting. And best of all, the longer one pursues it, the greater the enthusiasm becomes.” Along with his greetings to attendees of the International Philatelist Convention in Tulsa, the president expresses his belief that the convention will generate increased interest in stamp collecting.
It’s rare to find a letter in which a president praises a hobby, and it attests to Roosevelt’s personal fondness for this hobby.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) was the 32nd president of the United States (1933-1945) and one of the prominent world leaders of the 20th century. He was elected president four times in a row and served in this role for longer than any other president. During his service, he fought the Great Depression by increasing the involvement of the federal government in the economy. During the Second World War he led the United States to war against Japan and Nazi Germany.
Condition: Very fine. Fold marks.
Letter from William H. Taft regarding a corrupt employee of the tax authority. White House, Washington, 1911.
Specifications: [1] leaf, stationery. Printed with blue ink and signed by the president. 18X25 cm.
Content: The president writes about William Park, a clerk in the tax authority and suggests that his employment be terminated due to inebriation, corruption and many absences. Four months earlier, the addressee had convinced the president not to fire this employee, but at this point there is no way of preventing this action. It is possible that Taft’s anger stemmed in part from the fact that he had previously served as a regional agent of the tax authorities in 1882-1883 and because this corrupt clerk worked in Ohio, the state in which Taft was born and raised.
William Howard Taft (1857-1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909-1913). He was later appointed chief justice of the United States.
Condition: Fine-very fine, fold marks.
Harry Truman, former president of the United States, expresses his intention to come to New York for the Freedom Award ceremony. Missouri, 1965.
Specifications: [1] leaf, stationery, printed letter with his signature. 18X27 cm.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) was the 33rd president of the United States (1945-1953). As president, he authorized the use of atomic bombs to attack Japan, which led to the end of the Second World War. He helped rebuild Europe after the Second World War, collaborating with the allies of the United States. He was the first leader to recognize the establishment of the State of Israel.
Condition: Excellent condition, fold mark.
Letter of appointment to Rear Admiral of the Navy, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt. Washington D. C. 1908.
Specifications : [1] large parchment sheet printed with fabric stamp. Impressive official document, stamped and signed by the president. 36X46 cm.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858-1919) was the 26th president of the United States (1901-1909). A dynamic and colorful personality, with many achievements in various areas of interest. He was the Assistant-Secretary of the Navy, and wrote a book on naval warfare. He resigned to take a command position in the Spanish-American War. Served as governor of New York, and vice president. After President McKinley was assassinated, Roosevelt was appointed president. As president, he began digging the Panama Canal, and increased the US Navy. He led negotiations to end the Russo-Japanese War and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. In 1912 he failed in the presidential race.
Admiral Albert Ross (1846-1925) entered naval school during the American Civil War. He was appointed to several command posts including commander of a training ship. The naval training base he commanded was inaugurated on 1.7.1911. President Taft attended the graduation ceremony of the first 300 students.
Condition: Very fine condition, except for the effects of humidity and wear to the leaf margins.
Letter from Professor Buber to arrange the date of a meeting in Ben Shemen. Jerusalem, November 2, 1935.
Specifications: [1] leaf, paper. 21×28 cm. German. In Buber’s handwriting and with his signature.
Content of the Letter: Professor Buber had arrived for a short visit in Israel two days earlier, and was staying with Professor Hugo Bergman in the Rechavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. In this letter, he asks to visit in Ben Shemen in a week’s time. He suggests Dr. L. inform him of several possible dates, to allow them to arrange the date of the visit.
Martin Buber (Vienna 1887 – Jerusalem 1965) , educator, researcher, author and philosopher who had a tremendous influence on pre-Holocaust German Jewry. His Zionist and philosophical teachings remain extremely influential to this day. In 1930 he served as an honorary professor at Frankfurt University, until the Nazis rose to power in 1933. The letter before us was written in Jerusalem in 1935 when he came to visit Israel. In 1939 Buber left Germany, settled in Jerusalem, and was appointed as a professor at the Hebrew University.
Condition: Fine condition, fold marks, tiny tears.
Long letter by Marc Chagall. Paris, 1933.
Specifications : [1] leaf, paper, written on both sides. 21X27 cm. Yiddish, in the handwriting and signature of the artist.
Artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was one of the most important surrealist artists, and is considered by many to be the greatest Jewish painter of all time. He was born in a Jewish Chassidic family in the vicinity of Vitebsk, which was part of the empire of Russia [now in Belarus]. He studied at the Academy of the Arts in St. Petersburg, moved to the Artists’ Quarter in Paris [1910], returned to Russia [1914], moved to Lithuania [1922], resided in Berlin and returned to Paris [1923], fled the Nazis to the United States [1941], and returned to France [1949].
Unique Features: The artist signed ‘Marc Chagall’ and not Chagall as written in Yiddish.
Condition: Very fine. Fold marks and binder holes.
The Miller Letters — Introduction
A reflective and thoughtful series of letters between A. Miller and M. Stieglitz. In these letters, from the 1990s, Miller discusses such plays as The Last Yankee , Broken Glass , The Ride Down Mount Morgan and the film The Crucible – and looks back on his lifetime achievement. The letters are replete with revealing observations about both men’s private and romantic lives. The central subject of the letters is, however, moral-history and politics. Miller presents his wearily critical views of the Clinton administration, the Balkan wars and wonders about the rise of Netanyahu.
Stieglitz met Miller in 1987 when he was a post-doctoral fellow in international relations and nuclear strategy at Harvard’s Kennedy School and they became close friends. While driving back to Miller’s place from New York discussing the dilemma of family obligations and personal commitments, Miller asked Stieglitz to take a turn in the road and stop in front of the building where his son with Down Syndrome was institutionalized. In 1992, during dinner while Miller was visiting Israel, they discussed “obsessive love” and Miller reflected “women like her; they think they are the center of the world and worthless at the same time and this whirlpool is the source of their power – they draw you in.” The two shared many beliefs including a deep understanding of the moral-historical importance of the Gorbachev revolution, a founded stand on Just War and a critique of Israel’s sharp political twist.
Correspondence between one of the all-time greatest American playwrights – Arthur Miller, and Dr. Meir Stieglitz. United States, 1992-2002.
Specifications: Correspondence from Arthur Miller to Dr: Stieglitz:
[8] signed letters, for a total of [11] leaves, paper. With the original envelopes. 1992-2002.
[4] faxes, some of which are signed: [4] pages, 1997-2002.
[4] email printouts: 1 leaf, dated Jan. 2000.
With [10] copies of letters from Dr. Stieglitz to Arthur Miller: [27] pages, 1987-2002.
Content: In his letter, Miller relates to his professional work, American and Israeli politics, to his relationship with political leaders in the United States, to women and fatherhood, to his relationship with his family members and their professional success, to the influence of his advanced age on his health and worldview, to his response to the great honors for his life’s work, and more. He refers to his upcoming plays among others, which were in the process of preparation and performance: The Last Yankee , Broken Glass , The Ride Down Mount Morgan and Death of a Salesman .
He indicates his feelings about Clinton, Peres and Netanyahu, and relates to current political issues, including: the atomic threat on Israel, his disappointment in the State of Israel and the Jewish-Palestinian conflict (the Oslo Accords, the refugee problem, the influence of economic life on political stability, and more), massacres and wars (Kosovo, attack in Iraq, and more), the human tendency to support war, what causes his depression and what causes his hope, and more.
Arthur Miller was a Jewish-American playwright, one of the greatest of the 20th century. He was involved with high level figures in American culture and wrote significant plays criticizing social-political realities in the US. He was an ardent leftist, and was suspect in the McCarthy era. He won many prizes, and left a huge archive. For a more detailed biography, refer to the Hebrew text.
Some selected quotes:
I’m glad that you are enjoying your fatherhood. There is nothing quite like it.
As you get old there is less time for despair.
I am bored unless I am involved with some piece of writing …
I’m afraid I believe that given a choice human beings find the glamor and exhilaration of war more acceptable than a peace with low or negligible aspirations.
The situation at the moment is basically a checkmate in which the pieces are made of frozen butter and the sun is shining on the game board …
The problem with these women is that they consider themselves worthless and at the same time the center of the world …
I read that your great leader has been thrown out, and lift a glass to his departure.
I can recall the excitement among Jews with Israel’s establishment we were at least going to be like everybody else. Unfortunately, it has come to pass … Israel … its success lasted, historically speaking, some five minutes.
At 83 I suppose I see it [=the world] differently than I used to.
Condition: Very fine condition, fold marks.
The letter is addressed to “Honored Redaction, ” and in it, Bialik elegantly protests an article attributed to him. The name of the magazine is not mentioned. “Redaction” apparently alludes to an editorial staff or publishing house.
Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) was an alumni of the Volozhin Yeshiva. He was a prominent Hebrew poet who greatly influenced modern Jewish culture.
[1] leaf. 11×21 cm. Written and signed by Chaim Nachman Bialik.
Fold marks, minimal aging stains. Very fine condition.
A large and unique collection arranged in two small albums of over 280 signatures, letters, dedications and autographs from rabbinic figures, Jewish authors, diplomats, founders of the State, and prominent Jewish figures in Europe and Israel in the 19th and 20th centuries.
A partial list:
*Important signatures: Marc Chagall to Meir Dizengoff [2], Moshe Shamir, Professor Martin Buber, A.Z. Greenberg, Gershom Scholem, M.D. Kassuto, Eli Wiesel.
*Official letters signed by prominent figures and Prime Ministers from the establishment of the State of Israel: Menachem Begin, Chaim Moshe Shapira, Levi Eshkol, Moshe Sharet, Yosef Burg, Zerach Warhafting, Yitzchak Ben Zvi, Yisrael Yeshayhu, Moshe Dayan [3], Shimon Peres, Binyamin Mintz, Teddy Kollek, the judge Shneur Cheshin.
*Letters, signatures, dedications and responsa of rabbis from Germany, Austria, Hungary and Israel, from the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century.
*Dozens of autographs and dedications of authors of books and poets, including: S.L. Gordon (1913), Moshe Aharon Shatzkes (1866), Israel Eldad (1990), Rivka Gover (1953), Yitzchak Isaac Roller, Yosef Aricha.
*Letters of founders, diplomats and prominent figures: A thank-you letter to the rabbis of Safed from the British High Commissioner Herbert Samuel, Zev Vilnay, Aharon Magad, Avraham Ya’ari and others. An extensive communication with Yisrael Rokeach.
*Founders and managers of institutions of medicine, engineering and others, such as Yaakov Zeide, S.G. Tzundak, Hillel Yaffe, Dr C. Chissin (1924) and others.
*Historical documents such as a letter of the Sheikh Amin Tarif, mohel list from the settlement of Petach Tikva, letters from Jewish soldiers from World War II, character references (1942) and birth certificate (1940) signed by the “Mukhtar” of Petach Tikva and Jaffa.
General condition is fine to very fine.
26 letters and signatures from prominent poets, artists, philosophers and Zionists in Europe and Eretz Yisrael at the beginning of the 20th century. Including: Echad Ha’am, Max Brod, Henrietta Szold, Stefan Zweig, Boris Schatz, Meir Dizengoff and Gershom Scholem. 1905-1972.
* Poets and philosophers: [1] signed picture of Max Brod, friend of Kafka, author, journalist and composer, 1927. [1] inscription from “Echad Ha’am” on the title page of
Parshat Derachim , 1905. [5] Original Hebrew Poems in the Hand of Shalom Medina and a letter sent to him, 1938-1940. [2] lengthy letters from Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), author, journalist and Jewish-Austrian playwright, 1920, 1928. [1] letter signed by Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) regarding rare kabalisitc works, (1979).
*Artists and Bezalel: [1] lengthy letter on the official stationery of the “Misrad Eretz-Yisraeli” to the “Moshevet Bezalel” regarding work conditions in Bezalel, signed by Dr. A. Ruppin, (1912). [1] check signed by Arthur Szyk. New York, 1946. [1] reference letter on stationery, written and signed by Hermann Struck (1939). [2] membership certificates of Bezalel, one signed by Dr. Y. Sapir. [1] official Bezalel letter signed by Boris Schatz regarding his trip to America.
*Eretz Yisrael and Zionism: [1] Letter on stationery, written and signed in Hebrew by Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassa, 1940. [1] official letter of thanks signed by 27 Zionist and JNF leaders, in Lancut, Poland, 1933. [2] letters and license signed by Meir Dizengoff, 1920, 1925. [1] postcard written and signed by Avraham Moshe Lunz, Jerusalem (1905). [3] letter and portocol from Dr. Sherman regarding economic support for the Pasteur Institute, 1933. [1] official letter, written and signed by Menachem Begin, 1958. [1] certificate signed by Begin, Proops and Klarman, 1964. [1] Inscription in yiddish with the signature of Yiddishist poet Avraham Sutzkever on the title page of his book
Lider fun yam Hamavaes , regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1968. [1] printed letter signed by Gideon Hausner, relating to the possibility of a civil marriage while he served as a MK for the Gahal, 1972.
Various sizes. Overall fine condition.
A large and varied collection of approximately 400 pages, organized in an album, which contains extremely rare letters from Zionist leaders, Prime Ministers, diplomats and prominent authors from the end of the 19th century to the 1930s.
*Letters in the handwriting and with the signature of Zionist leaders, from the turn of the century until the establishment of the State: Ze’ev Jabotinsky [3], Menachem Sheinkin [3], Meir Dizengoff, Yitzchak Ben Zvi, the Va’ad HaLeumi and more [3], Chaim Arlosoroff, Henrietta Szold, Eliyahu Golomb, Yehoshua Hankin, Yisrael Belkind, the founder of the Bilu movement and more.
*Letters and documents about Zionist and economic activity all over the world, requests for such activities and Zionist documents from rare places: Cuba, Baghdad, Alexandria, Tzidon, India. Handmade poster of Keren HaYesod, Telz.
*Israeli governmental letters, signed: Binyamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin [4], Moshe Sharet, Moshe Dayan, a collection of dedications by David Yellin.
*Authors, journalism and publishing: Eliezer Ben Yehuda to Meir Dizengoff, Leah Goldberg, a rare letter of the
HaOlam weekly, most likely Alter Druyanov, Odessa 1912, E. Golomb, Chaim Nachman Bialik, U.Z. Greenberg and more.
*Letters of American institutions: the White House, American Presidents, AAJR, JTS, Yale, the Air Force.
*A letter about the Sha’arei Torah Yeshiva in Jaffa and the newspaper
HaMelitz, which was sent to Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever, 1896, by the activist Moshe Bezalel Todrosovich. A letter from Auschwitz, 1944. A letter from the Militia Unit P.H.H, Austria, 1948.
The letters are arranged in an album. They are in fine to very fine condition.
Collection of a dozen letters and autographs of early Chovivei Tzion and Zionist leaders and philosophers, all participants in Zionist Congresses. Including: Herzl, Shaul Pinchas Rabinowitz, Ussishkin, Sokolov and Echad Ha’am. Europe and Eretz Yisrael, 1885-1944.
* Herzl, regarding the Zionist Congress, 1902. Signature.* Y.L. Goldberg, signature on the title page of
HaShalach , 1930.* Section of a German letter written and signed by Max Nordau, mentions 1883.*Lengthy letter, three crowded pages, in the hand and with the signature of Shmuel Pinchas Rabinowitz (1845-1910), of the first Chovivei Tzion. The letter is rare historic testimony to internal correspondence among the Chovivei Tzion. It was written in the year that the construction of the Mazkeret Moshe neighborhood was concluded and discusses the use of the funds collected for it. Relates to the leaders of Chovivei Tzion such as Herman Shapira and Rabbi Adler and members in Vilna, Bialystock and more. The official letterhead of the לשכת ההנהגה הזמנית ליסוד מזכרת משה [the temporary adminsitration office of Mazkeret Moshe]. [3] leaves, handwritten with signature. * Reference letter written and signed by Menachem Ussishkin, on the official letterhead of the JNF, 1930s-40s.*[2] letters written and signed by Asher Zvi Gintzberg (Echad Ha’am) while he was a manager in the Wissotzky tea factory in England. England, 1907-1908. *[2] letters written and signed by Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz to Rabbi Chaim Heller, 1920s.* Letter written and signed by Nachum Sokolov to Rabbi Shmuel Ahronson, 1920s.* Letter written and signed by Prof. Joseph Klausner, 1940.* Letter written and signed by Elyakim Heinrich Loewe, 1944.
Various sizes and conditions. Fine to very fine condition.
Postcard written and signed by Golda Meir. Milwaukee, United States, 1918.
[1] postcard. 14×9 cm. Written in English, signed “Goldy.”
Rare postcard from Golda Meir when she was about twenty years old and still lived in the United States. That year, about a year after her marriage when she was still living with her parents, Golda was chosen to be a representative in the Jewish American Congress and started her Zionist political career. Golda notes her upcoming trip – one of many – which her family did not appreciate. Signed “Goldy.” Fine condition.
Important letter from Golda Meir to Moshe Sharett regarding the appointment of Pinchas Lavon as Minister of Defense in 1953.
[1] letterhead from the Minstry of Labor. 15.5×22 cm. Typewritten with her signature.
Written in December 1953, after Ben Gurion’s resignation as Prime Minister but before Moshe Sharett’s official appointment to the post. In this letter, Golda expresses her hesitations about Pinchas Lavon’s suitability for Minister of Defense, conflicting with Ben Gurion’s opinion. Lavon was eventually appointed to the post about a month after this letter was written.
Filing holes. Fold marks. Very fine condition.
JNF Golden Certificate given to Dr. Hentke, signed by Bar Ilan, Granovsky and Katznelson, 1944.
[1] certificate. 33×45 cm. Signed by the directorate of the JNF in 1944: Rabbi Meir Bar Ilan, Avraham Granot (Granovsky) and Berl Katznelson
.
Dr. Hentke was a lawyer and economist, a leader of the Zionist organization in Germany and head of the Keren HaYesod. He connected the Zionists in Eastern and Western Europe and founded the Central Zionist Archive.The Golden Book of the Keren Kayemeth L’Yisrael is a collection of names and organizations who gave substantial donations to the Zionist movement.
The certificate is pasted to cardboard. Very fine condition.
8 printed leaves with signature and glosses in the hand of Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz. 33x21cm.
Draft of Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s article on the topic of Shabbat and how it typifies the religious crisis in the country. The revised version of this article was first printed in
B’Terem in 1951 and then in Leibowitz’s book
Yehadut, Am Yehudi U’Medinat Yisrael .
Very fine condition.
Program for a festive dinner and reception in honor of Einstein that took place in New Jersey. United States, 1934.
Jacket binding. 2 doubled leaves. 23×15.5 cm. The title page features a picture of Einstein with his autograph.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He was invited to visit the United States by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, and, due to the Nazi rise to power and their persecution, didn’t return to Germany (where he was a professor in Berlin).
A number of influential Jews, including Abba Silver Hillel and Joseph Persky, participated in this reception held in honor of Einstein.
Filing holes and aging stains. Fine condition.
Original photo of Albert Einstein with his inscription and autograph from the last year of his life, 1955.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He visited the United States in 1933 at the invitation of the Institute for Advance Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, and decided not to return to Germany, where he worked as professor in Berlin, because of the Nazi persecution.
In a wooden frame with matting, 11×8 cm. (22×16 with matting). Very fine condition.
The letter is addressed to “the modest woman Aidel Golda Tzoref in Jerusalem.” Montefiore blesses her and the entire Jewish Nation with salvation as our forefathers saw on Purim.
Montefiore signed in Hebrew in nice, square letters, as well as in English. The letter was apparently written by his secretary, Dr. Levi.
Avraham Shlomo Zalman Tzoref was a disciple of the Gr”a who moved to Jerusalem. He led the battle to establish the Churvah Synagogue. He passed away in 1851, and the Churvah was inaugurated in 1864.
The recipient was the wife of Yitzchak Tzoref, the second son of Avraham Shlomo Zalman Tzoref. She was widowed when her husband died in a plague in Jerusalem at the age of 41. Aidel Golda Tzoref was a scion of the noted Kahana-Shapira family.
For information about the activities of Shlomo Zalman Tzoref, refer to Dr. Aryeh Morgenstern’s books regarding the
aliyah of the disciples of the Gr”a (In particular,
HaShivah L’Yerushalayim and
Sefer HaChurvah ).
Doubled leaf, 25×20 cm. Thick, quality paper. Montefiore’s letterhead with his emblem. Fold marks. A few stains. Fine condition.
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.
