Oloth Habrith

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

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Lot 232

(JERUSALEM)

Oloth Habrith

Printed Broadside. Text in Hebrew Single folio leaf. Browned. Framed

Jerusalem: Judah & Jerusalem (1878)

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $700

Broadside issued by the Aschkenazi Rabbis of Jerusalem reaffirming their ruling forbidding the secular education of Jewish children in the Holy City of Jerusalem “under pain of excommunication.” The Rabbis stress that even the teaching of the Arabic language is forbidden as is the tutoring in private of a stdent. Signed by Rabbis Joshua Leib Diskin of Brisk and his Beth Din, Joseph Chaim Sonnenfeld, Eliezer Menachem Biderman and Mordechai Eliezer Weber, among others