A group of six printed and manuscript documents pertaining to renovation of the Beth Jacob Synagogue in the courtyard of R. Yehuda HaChassid, acquiring plots of land and the building of a new quarter (Battei Machaseh) with apartments for the poor of Jerusalem near Mt. Zion. Includes: German booklet (dated Nissan,1864) concerning plans to errect housing for 12 families sponsored by S. R. Hirsch, M. Lehmann, J. Ettlinger, A. Hildesheimer. With a map and drawings of proposed buldings. * Copy of a letter addressed to R. Joseph Hirsch, dated 1887 containing report of proceedings of a DinTorah between Azriel Zelig Hausdorf, Jacob Mordechai (Hirschenson) and Nathan Coronel concerning the disputed construction by Sephardim that encroached on the Battei Machseh. * A dispute concerning Hausdorf's alleged intention to evict Hirschenson's daughter-in-law. With scribal signatures of the Sephardic Beth Din and the Sephardic Chief Rabbi Chaim David Chazan. (Concerning Hausdorf (1823-1905), see Yaari, Shluchei, pp. 805-807). * Manuscript letter signed by Moshe b. Yaakov to the communal leaders of Amsterdam concerning the plight of the Jews in Tiberias. Etc. From the collection of Leyzer Ran
