Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew, to Yehudah Ratzhabi

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

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Lot 273

BEN-GURION, DAVID.

Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew, to Yehudah Ratzhabi

Single page on lined paper

Tel Aviv: 31st December 1965

Est: $500 - $700

A letter of congratulations to the Yemenite scholar Prof. Yehudah Ratzabi upon receiving an unspecified Prize (Israel Prize?). Ben-Gurion also provides literary evidence to support his contention that the city of Tzephath (Safed) should in fact be vocalized "Tzepheth"