collection of Broadsides: Agudath israel and edah chareidis

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

Back to Catalogue Download Catalogue

Lot 128
(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

collection of Broadsides: Agudath israel and edah chareidis

An unusually rich archive of c.305 broadsides concerning all aspects of communal life in Eretz Israel: the prohibition against secular and modern schools, the obligation to secede from Knesset Israel, the general Zionist establishment, the resolution to establish separate Kosher facilities, the decision of the Gedolim forbidding women's suffrage (the right to vote), etc. Key figures are Rabbis Sonnenfeld, Duschinsky, and Bengis of the Edah Chareidis, and the Agudah activist R. Moshe Blau, among many others

Jerusalem: v.p. First Half Twentieth Century

Est: $8,000 - $12,000
A Rich and Entralling Archive