Collection of Letters, Documents and Manuscripts, Rabbis and Yeshivot. The Land of Israel, 19-20th Century

Collection of Letters, Documents and Manuscripts, Rabbis and Yeshivot. The Land of Israel, 19-20th Century

Large collection of some 120 letters, documents, Torah novellae, stamps and receipts, mainly from rabbis, postcards, kollels and yeshivas in the Land of Israel from the end of the 19th century until the 20th century.

Among the letters is a letter from the rabbis of Jerusalem to Rabbi Yitzchak Yerucham Diskin prior to his immigration to the Land of Israel.

The names of the following rabbis appear on the letter: Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Shapira, Rabbi Mendel Moinster, Rabbi Yisrael Leib Brinstein, Rabbi Yaakov Orenstein, Rabbi Yehosef Ralbag, Rabbi Yaakov Blumenthal, Rabbi Yeshaya Orenstein and Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.

* Stamped commercial document of the Philipp's Ferdinand Sohne Bennisch company of Austria-Hungary, with the stamp of the Deutsche Palaestina Bank, the German Bank in Palestine, 1909.

* Signatures of rabbis and Admors upon receiving financial support, 1949.

* Letter from Rabbi Natan Zvi Friedman with autobiographical descriptions, [Bnei Brak].

* Collection of scraps of paper from zealous anti-Zionists.

"The period in which we live is a tumultuous period in which the original Judaism is engaged in a bitter battle for its existence. Those who observe Torah and mitzvot are experiencing difficult times, waves of horror are engulfing all good places, the keepers of tradition are being pursued. Woe to us that this has happened to us during our lives. There is no-one who is properly concerned and pained by the suffering of the Torah and the suffering of purity."

* Letter from the rabbi of the Old Yishuv to Rabbi Pinchas Aryeh Leibush, Jerusalem, 1904.

In the letter, a faithful student of the writer, Rabbi Menachem Mordechai Frankel [Teomim, later Rosh Yeshiva of the Rabbi Chaim Berlin Yeshiva in Brooklyn, author of Drush V'Chiddush and other books] is mentioned, as well as the emissary to Africa Chananya Pitkevsky, who was supported by Rabbi Shmuel Salant of Jerusalem. He informs the recipient about his family's welfare, mentions his longing to return to learning (Torah) as he used to, and provides details of their studies in three lectures. The end of the letter is lacking.

Condition: Conditions vary, moderate-fine.