Kol Mevaser, Mevaser Ve’Omer.

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Lot 139
(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Kol Mevaser, Mevaser Ve’Omer.

Text in Hebrew and German. pp. (3) + 1 integral blank. Central crease, edges frayed. 4to.

Fürth: J. Sommer (1864)

Est: $200 - $300
A prospectus offering scholarships to Jewish students from Eretz Israel. Dismayed by the penury of their brethren in Eretz Israel, the Jewish community of Bamberg formed a committee to provide support for young Jews to come to Germany in order to learn a profession or trade. The plan was that these individuals would subsequently return to their homeland newly enabled to earn a livelihood and thus become independent of the welfare-rolls. The prospectus stresses that the program has no intention of undermining a traditional Orthodox life-style that centers around the study of Torah. Signatories: Sal. Dessauer, M.L. Eger, Jac. Goldmann, Marx Gütterman, H. Klein, B. Lämlein, M. Ullmann, Sam. Wassermann, Dr. J. Kobak, Distrikts-Rabbiner. A highly forward-thinking program of economic advancement and social engineering - not just within the Jewish community, but from the perspective of European society as a whole. See JE, Vol. II, p. 483.