Autograph letter signed, in Yiddish, to the Department of Education of the Jewish Community of Vilna, concerning educational matters and organizational representation in Warsaw.
AUCTION 1 |
Thursday, November 14th,
1996 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
Lot 289
AN-SKI, Sh. (pseud. of Solomon Zanwill Rapaport, author and folklorist, 1863(?)-1920)
Autograph letter signed, in Yiddish, to the Department of Education of the Jewish Community of Vilna, concerning educational matters and organizational representation in Warsaw.
Warsaw(?): 25th September, 1919
Est: $300 - $400
In 1918 An-ski helped reorganize the Vilna community following the ravages of World War I. In 1919, he resettled in Warsaw, where his last undertaking was the foundation of a Jewish ethnographic society (removed to Vilna after his death)