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LOT 253:
Collection of Documents and Letters – Institutions of the Turkish Rabbinate, With Signatures of Rabbis – Turkey ...
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Sold for: $850
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Buyer's Premium: 25%
VAT: 17%
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Collection of Documents and Letters – Institutions of the Turkish Rabbinate, With Signatures of Rabbis – Turkey, 1909-1939
Collection of documents, letters, certificates and halachic rulings from various institutions, mainly rabbinical institutions in Turkish cities. 1909-1939.
Contains: Certificate signed by R. Yosef HaKohen and R. Yosef Ferrara, with stamps of the Chief Rabbinate and Beit Din in Constantinople; letters and documents on official stationery of the "Chief Rabbinate of Turkey, including a letter to R. Bentzion Uziel, signed by R. Refael David Saban, R. Yaakov Argueti and R. Moshe ibn Habib; certificates on official stationery of the Smyrna (Izmir) Beit Din, signed by the head of the Beit Din R. Moshe Melamed and other rabbis; a document of the Ashkenazi community in Constantinople, and a certificate signed by R. Dr. David Marcus – Rabbi of the Ashkenazim in Constantinople; documents from a Dardanelle village certification; documents on official stationery of the Chief Rabbinate of Turkey [in Constantinople], some signed by R. Chaim Nachum, Chief Rabbi of Turkey (including blank official stationery of the rabbinate); documents on stationery of the Chief Rabbi of Izmir, signed by R. Nisim Danon; certificate on stationery of the Smyrna [Izmir] Jewish community, signed by R. Yehudah Albaali, R. Moshe Melamed and R. Bechor Yitzchak Katan; a document of engagement with an official printed header of the Chief Rabbinate of Turkey (for an engagement in Constantinople, Tevet 1907); and more.
35 leaves. Varying size. Good-fair overall condition (stains, wear, tears and folding marks).
