Appel aux Israélites de France et d'Algerie [Appeal to the Jews of France and Algeria for funds for "L'Oeuvre des Missions rabbiniques."]

Many of the smaller communities of France were unable to pay a rabbi's salary. Nonetheless, the Consistoire Central, the governing body of French Jewry, was determined to make sure that no Jewish community would be without a rabbi. Therefore, the Rabbinical Mission ("Missions rabbiniques") was founded to provide these outlying towns with rabbis. Funds were urgently needed for these "missioning" rabbis and their families