Poster of Recommendation from Rabbis of Several Countries Following Persecution of Moroccan Jewry. 1824. Unknown Poster!

Poster of Recommendation from Rabbis of Several Countries Following Persecution of Moroccan Jewry. 1824. Unknown Poster!

Poster sent to England, to Rabbi David Meldola, due to the oppression of Moroccan Jewry, signed by rabbis from several countries. Livorno, 1824. Hebrew and English. Unknown in the Bibliography.

At the beginning of the poster, there is a lengthy letter from Livorno rabbis Rabbi Shlomo Malach, Rabbi Amram Amar and Rabbi Mordechai Nissim. The letter is for Rabbi David Meldola of London, written in 1823.

There are then other letters added, from 1824: A letter from Rabbi Matityah Zacut, one of the sages of Alessandria, Italy (who was killed in 1835); letter from the rabbis of Paris, Rabbi Avraham de Colonia, Rabbi Seligman Michael and Rabbi Emanuel Deititz. These are followed by two letters from rabbis of Amsterdam, Ashkenazic and Sephardic.

The second leaf bears a copy of the poster and the letters, in English.

The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book lists the poster on a small leaf including only the letter from the Livorno rabbis from 1823, without the letters that were added, and there the poster is translated into Italian (and not into English).

Regarding the persecution of Jews in Morocco 1820-1822, refer to Yosef Ben-Naim Malkei Rabbanan, Jerusalem, 1931, in the introduction.

[2] leaves, 26x45 cm, pasted on bristol board.

Moderate condition. Tiny tears with minimal damage to text. Stains.