Collection of Greeting Letters to Haim Neiger - President of the Zionist Organization in West Galicia

Collection of Greeting Letters to Haim Neiger - President of the Zionist Organization in West Galicia
Collection of greeting letters sent to Haim Neiger, on the occasion of his 60th birthday and his 70th birthday. Tarnow and Eretz Israel, 1932 and 1942.
Haim (Joachim) Neiger (1873-1944), was born in Otfinów, West Galicia. His father was one of the founders of Galician "Ahavat Zion" society. Neiger was a delegate in ten consecutive Zionist congresses and participated in other important Zionist conventions. He founded a Polish Zionist weekly in Tarnow and composed many articles for Zionist journals in Galicia and Poland; was chairman of the Va'ad HaKehila in Tarnow, chairman of the West Galicia Zionist Organization, member of Tarnow City Council, and three times a candidate to the Polish Sejm. Neiger visited Eretz Israel in 1932. In 1937 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Haifa.
The collection contains 95 greetings, letters and telegrams sent to Neiger for his 60th birthday (December 1932 - January 1934). Among them letters, telegrams, calling cards, postcards and JNF telegrams with greeting in honor of Neiger, from a wide variety of Zionist organizations in Galicia and Poland, rabbis, activists and public figures. The collection also includes about 30 letters sent to him on his 70th birthday (December 1942), from friends and activists, and some other documents. Total of about 125 items. Size and condition varies. Many of the documents were pasted to each other, in pairs, by Neiger.