Autograph letter signed, in Hebrew, on Commodore Hotel stationary, to Hannah Maisel-Shochat, “The matter of your School has been arranged…” Concerns financial arrangements for the new institution.

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Lot 329

USSISHKIN, MENACHEM MENDEL (Zionist leader, 1863-1941).

Autograph letter signed, in Hebrew, on Commodore Hotel stationary, to Hannah Maisel-Shochat, “The matter of your School has been arranged…” Concerns financial arrangements for the new institution.

“Could you talk to Dr. Rupin concerning land for the School. Good luck in your toil - which is also ours.” 1p., two folds, punch-hole on right margin, 8vo; with photograph (1905) of Ussishkin

New York: 25th Nissan, (1921)

Est: $300 - $500

The recipient was a leading agricultural educator for girls. The school in question was the Girl’s Agricultural School in Nahalal that Maisel-Shochat led for nearly 40 years. Ussishkin was in New York at the time, together with Albert Einstein, promoting the fund-raising efforts of Keren Hayesod, the financial arm of the World Zionist Organization.