(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 150

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Kehilath Ya’akov: Agudathah al eretz nosdah le-hithnachel al admath eretz ha-kodesh, le-avdah, le-shamrah, leihanoth mi-yegi’a kapayim u-le-kayem eth ha-mitzvoth ha-teluyoth ba-aretz. [“Congregation of Jacob”: A Society founded in Eretz Israel to settle the land, to earn a living by manual labor, and to observe the commandments of the land] pp. 8. Original printed wrappers. 8vo

Jerusalem: The Anglo-Palestine Company (1908)

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $500

Prospectus of Agudath Kehillath Ya’akov, whose aim was to purchase land on the outskirts of Jerusalem for settlement by Orthodox “Bnei Torah” (Torah students). Endorsed by members Avraham Aaron Sonnenfeld, Tzemach Hakohen and Shimon Weiss. The final page is an impassioned appeal by Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook, Rabbi of Jaffa, urging the Torah greats to heed the call of the Society