Large Collection of Documents Recording the Sale of Chametz - Jerusalem, 1950 - With Many Signatures of Rabbis and ...

Large Collection of Documents Recording the Sale of Chametz - Jerusalem, 1950 - With Many Signatures of Rabbis and Renowned Figures
Collection of dozens of large leaves, notebooks and notes, with lists of hundreds of families and institutions throughout Jerusalem and the surroundings, who authorized the Bein Din of R. Tzvi Pesach Frank to sell their Chametz on their behalf to a non-Jew. Nissan 1950.
Long lists, signed by the sellers or their representatives. Detailed lists of the sellers, the types of items being sold and their precise location are found on the verso of the leaves or in separate notes. Most lists are organized according to neighborhoods (Rehavia, Katamon, Machane Yehuda, Bayit VeGan, Geula, Beit Yisrael, Talpiot, Nachalat Shiva, Givat Shaul, and others). Including records of sale of chametz for neighboring kibbutzim, hospitals and old age homes, institutions and immigration centers, and grocery stores in the transit camps in the Jerusalem corridor (Lifta, Shaar HaGai, Eshtaol and others).
Document recording the sale of the Chametz to the non-Jew "Mustafa Ibrahim Halil, Mukhtar of Beit Safafa", signed by R. Tzvi Pesach Frank, R. Yosef Gershon Horowitz and R. Eli' Re'em.
The hundreds of signatures include many signatures of prominent rabbis and figures, including signatures and inscriptions of: R. Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman, Shai Agnon, R. Elazar Menachem Man Shach (later dean of the Ponovezh yeshiva), R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin, R. Avraham Yitzchak Zalaznik (later dean of the Etz Chaim yeshiva), R. Shlomo Borenstein in the name of R. Chanoch Borenstein (rebbes of Sochatchov in Bayit VeGan), R. Aryeh Levin, R. Simcha Ziskind Broide (later dean of the Hebron yeshiva), R. Betzalel Zolty (later chief rabbi of Jerusalem), and hundreds more (see Hebrew description for more details).
Separate leaf from the Yemenite Beit Din, with 39 signatures.
Approx. 100 leaves. Size and condition vary.