Certificate on behalf of the Writers and Journalists Association in Bialystok, on the Occasion of the Opening of ...

Certificate on behalf of the Writers and Journalists Association in Bialystok, on the Occasion of the Opening of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem - Handwritten on Parchment
Exquisite certificate on behalf of the Jewish Writers and Journalists Association in Bialystok, written on the occasion of the opening of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Bialystok, March 15, 1925. Handwritten, in black and gold ink, on parchment. Hebrew.
"The Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists in Bialystok (Poland) partakes with all its national sentiments in the exalted celebration of the opening of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The residents of Bialystok, where the first visionary of the idea of national revival, Rabbi Samuel Mohilever, and the first founder of the national university library, Dr. Joseph Chazanowicz, lived and worked [Joseph Chazanowicz (1844-1919), Jewish-Polish physician, one of the first Zionists. His book collection was the basis of the collection of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem], can truly appreciate this historic day, when the light of the Torah and of science again dawns on the hills of Zion and Jerusalem, spreading its rays among all corners of our national home in Palestine, and from there to all the diasporas…"
The certificate is signed by twenty-six members of the Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists in Bialystok, including: A. S. Herschberg [Avraham Shmuel Hirschberg], Pesach Kaplan, Noah Zavlodovsky, A. S. Amiel, Aharon Berzinsky, Moshe Ben Zvi Wissotzky, and others.
47X32 cm. Good condition. Upper corners trimmed. Stains. Small tears at margins. A few missing pieces. Rolled and inserted in leather-covered cardboard case (damaged).