Handwritten Letter from Heads of "Kehilat Ya'akov" Association – Fund-Raising for Purchase of Har Tuv Lands, 1882

Handwritten letter sent by heads of "Kehilat Ya'akov" Association to "Organization of officials and administrators of Amsterdam" (Pekidim ve-Amarkalim) for fund-raising to purchase Har-Tuv lands. Jerusalem, [1882].
A letter dated 23.11.1882, written on official letterhead of "Komitay shel kolonye 'Kehilat Yaakov' asher bayn Zora ubayn Eshtaol", addressing the "Organization of officials and administrators of Amsterdam" asking for donations and assistance. Among other things, the letter mentions the necessity of donations to the farm, training farmers, the need to prepare new settlements for absorption of immigrants, the difficult state of Russian Jewry, and other subjects. At the end of the letter appear signatures of eight of "Kehilat Ya'akov" association leaders and an ink-stamp of the association.
"Kehilat Ya'akov" was the name of a group of activists from the "old Yishuv" who were interested in purchasing lands of the Arab village Artuf and to sell it to Jews, with a profit. For that porpose, the activists pretended that a settlement called "Kehilat Ya'akov" was already established on the land, and even published in the newspapers regulations for elections for a council and management of the committee. Following the failure of this group, the lands were sold to the British mission.
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[1] leaf (two written pages), approx. 23X28.5 cm. Fair condition. Folding marks, stains and creases. Tears and open tears along folding marks and at margins. One tear reinforced with acidic adhesive tape.