Large, thick ledger, including detailed lists of monthly income and expenses of one of the kollelim in Jerusalem from the end of 1912 through mid-1914.
Some the names of donors to the kollel include names of leading Admo”rim and rabbis, including: The Admo”r Rabbi Yisrael Hager, author of Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz; the Admo”r Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Chortkov; the Admo”r Rabbi Yisrael Perlow of Stolin (the “Yanuka”); the Admo”r Rabbi Avraham Ya’akov Friedman of Sadigura, author of Abir Ya’akov ; the Admo”r Rabbi Moshe of Kossov; the Admo”r Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Morgenstern of Lukov-Kotzk, author of Ateret Tzvi; the Admo”r Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heschel Rabinowitz of Lublin, author of Yeshuot Avraham (son of the Divrei Binah of Biale); the Admo”r Rabbi Naftali Avraham Askkenazi of Stanislaw; the gaon Rabbi Nathan HaLevi Bamberger, av beit din of Würzburg (son of the “Würzburger Rav” Rabbi Yitzchak Dov Bamberger) and many more.
Some of the names of the rebbes who donated appear several times in the ledger.
A great deal of historic information can be drawn from this ledger about the economic situation in the Ashkenazi Old Yishuv of Jerusalem just prior to WWI.
202 leaf. 38 cm. Fine condition. Partially detached spine.