Printed Receipt from the Va’ad Kollelot HaSephardim.

Auction 92 | Thursday, February 18th, 2021 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts

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Lot 86

(JERUSALEM).

Printed Receipt from the Va’ad Kollelot HaSephardim.

Signed in autograph by the leading Sephardic rabbis of Jerusalem: Chief Rabbi Ya’akov Shaul Eliyashar (1817-1906), Rabbi Yosef Nissim Burla (1828-1903); and lay leaders of the Va’ad (also known as the Comite Central des Israelites Sepharadim): Yitzhak Aryeh, Moshe Navon, and Haim Nissim Barukh. A receipt for a donation of £26.66 by <<Haim Guedella of London.>> One page. 8vo.

Jerusalem: 26th Shevat 1899

Est: $500 - $700

A scion of prominent Sephardic families, Haim Guedalla (1815-1904) was an Anglo-Jewish philanthropist whose maternal uncle was Sir Moses Montefiore. An enthusiast of Jewish settlement of Eretz Israel, in the late 1870’s Guedalla proposed that the land be purchased from the Ottomans in exchange for its £250,000,000 debt. Although nothing came of the idea, it followed Guedalla’s earlier success in adventurous foreign policy: In 1869, he persuaded the Spanish government to officially permit the return of Jews.