Declaration by Jerusalem’s Chareidi rabbis, synagogues and yeshivahs, of disengagement from the freethinker’s Va’ad HaLeumi that represented the Yishuv to the authorities. 12 Sivan, 1924.
Text of the declaration appearing at the tops of the pages: “We protest with full force the regulations of the constitution of communities that place the entire Jewish Yishuv under the guardianship of the Va’ad HaLeumi and force all Chareidim to be partners with Sabbath-transgressors and heretics, primarily its arrangement of the community’s religious and public institutions.” The rabbis’ signatures and stamps appear under this text .
Some of the renowned signatories include: R’ Yitzchak Yerucham Diskin [with his stamp]; R’ Moshe Yosef Hoffman [one of the notable personages of Jerusalem]; R’ Aharon Yosef Weingarten, R’ Naftali Porush-Glickman; R’ Zerach Reuven Braverman; R’ Moshe Aharon Golomb; R’ Yisrael Mordechai Fishbein; R’ Yehudah Dovber Shein; R’ Ephraim Sofer [one of the leaders of Karlin Chassidim]; R’ Binyamin Ya’akovson; R’ Moshe Orenstein; R’ Yisrael Rabin; R’ Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky; R’ Zalman Levinthal; R’ Moshe Blau.
[6] leaves paper, approximately 22×35 cm.
Overall fine-very fine condition.