A collection of documents related to the estate left by Dr. Moshe Wallach, director of Shaare Zedek Hospital in ...

A collection of documents related to the estate left by Dr. Moshe Wallach, director of Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem

A collection of documents related to the estate left by Dr. Moshe Wallach - director and founder of the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem. Most of the documents are from the late 1950s. There are several earlier documents written by Dr. Wallach himself and refer to his estate. Most of the documents are typed with the signatures of those concerned.

Among the documents: 'Declaration and Commitment' submitted by Dr. Wallach in Tammuz 1952 in which he confirms that he gave irrevocable permission to his brother Mr. Ludwig Wallach and his children to each build a building on its plot bordering Shaare Zedek Hospital and belonging to the hospital - signed by him, clauses in the special regulations of the General Hospital of Israel Shaare Zedek Jerusalem drafted by Dr. Wallach, documents related to the seizure of Dr. Wallach's assets after his death, documents related to the executors of Dr. Wallach's will His death (September 1958), documents related to Dr. Wallach's estate tax, and other documents related to his estate. There are also a number of early documents including the 'Special Regulations of the Shaare Zedek Jerusalem General Hospital', and another document with amended regulations, Answer The State of Israel to Dr. Wallach in his request to transfer the passing road near Shaare Zedek Hospital - January 1953 - some signed by Jerusalem Mayor Gershon Agron, and some signed by Shlomo Zalman Shragai, Mayor of West Jerusalem, etc. See also 'Dynasty' auction No.9, Item 261.

Dr. Moshe Wallach [1866-1957]: A Jewish doctor of German descent, one of the majestic figures of Jerusalem, founder, and director of the Shaare Zedek Hospital. In his youth he studied medicine in Berlin and Wurzburg. Arrived in Jerusalem in December 1890 at the age of 24, on a mission from the "Organization of Clerks and Archivists" in Amsterdam, which assisted the Jewish community in the country. At that time there were only ten Jewish doctors in the whole of Jerusalem. When he arrived in Jerusalem he became close to Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld. In 1901, Dr. Wallach established the Shaare Zedek Hospital, named after the neighborhood, using funds he raised abroad. Countless stories have been told about his wonderful personality which merged with contradictory - outwardly he showed a stiff face, but in his wide heart he personally cared for the sick of the city with devotion day and night. The hospital he founded was considered at the time to be sophisticated and advanced in the Middle East. Dr. Wallach was both the director of the hospital and the chief physician in it, he always carried on him the bundle of hospital keys whose all doors were locked by himself, and even set aside a room in which he lived inside the hospital building. Dr. Wallach's character in the hospital and in Jerusalem in general was so dominant that for a long time the hospital was referred to by the Jerusalem public as the "Wallach Hospital". Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, gave Dr. Wallach an honorary degree when he visited Jerusalem , And in 1944 even received from the High Commissioner the Medal of Honor of the British Empire. In his old age, Dr. Wallach received the title of honorary citizen of the city of Jerusalem for his many deeds. (Before him were only four people who received the title: Haim Weizmann, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fishman Maimon). Dr. Wallach passed away at the age of ninety. A large crowd attended his funeral, and he was buried in the Shaare Zedek cemetery near the hospital. Next to the cemetery is a street named after him.

c. [80] leaves in total. Data in original folder from the 1950s. general condition good.