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LOTE 245:
Letter Signed by Moses Montefiore – Distribution of Funds to Ashkenazi Kollelim in Palestine – Ramsgate, 1883
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Letter Signed by Moses Montefiore – Distribution of Funds to Ashkenazi Kollelim in Palestine – Ramsgate, 1883
Letter by Moses Montefiore to the rabbis of Jerusalem, Rabbi Shmuel Salant, Rabbi Avraham Eisenstein and Rabbi Isaac Yoffe of Druya. Written by a secretary, on official stationery, and hand-signed by Montefiore in English. Ramsgate, England, 1883.
The letter deals with a donation Montefiore had received from Sir David Lionel Salomons (1851-1925, a Jewish-British scientist, lawyer and politician), "With a request to give the said funds […] to distribute among the poor of Kollel Prushim [...] who are living in the four holy cities Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias and Safed" (Hebrew).
[1] leaf, 19.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and minor creases. Stains.
