Hebrat-Kimat-Hassot, ou, Schomrim-Labboker [appeal for funds for mystic midnight vigil society]
AUCTION 50 |
Thursday, February 24th,
2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art
Lot 8
(ALEPPO).
Hebrat-Kimat-Hassot, ou, Schomrim-Labboker [appeal for funds for mystic midnight vigil society]
(Jerusalem): circa 1910
Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $800
This appeal was issued by a unique society of Kabbalists attached to the historic R. Yochanan Ben Zakkai Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. The synagogue, destroyed by the Jordanians in the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, has since been restored. The distinguished signatories on this appeal were all natives of Aleppo who immigrated to Jerusalem at the end of the nineteenth or beginning of the twentieth century: R. Jomtob Jedid Levy (1856-1923); R. Ezra Harari Raffoul (1857-1936) and R. H[aim] Saul Dueck (1857-1933).
See D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars (2005), pp. 172-78; 208-09; 351-52