Sepher Zikaron.

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

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

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Lot 282

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Sepher Zikaron.

Hebrew manuscript. Signed by Rabbis Yaakov Dovid Ridvaz and Joseph Konvitz, with their stamps. Including red wax seal of the Ridva”z from Babroisk on inside of back cover. Includes the signatures of three Gabaim and administrators including Naphtali Chaneles, great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. The front flyleaf contains the printed Takanoth of the institution. Four leaves with well over a hundred blank leaves of stationery of the Yeshiva. Contemporary calf backed boards. 4to

Safed: 1906

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $600

Ledger for recording the names of donors to the Talmud Torah and Yeshiva Torath Eretz Yisrael of Safed. The Pinkas notes the appointment of the Shadar, Ephraim HaLevi as the official emissary of the yeshiva that was founded by R. Yaakov Dovid Ridvaz and his son-in-law R. Joseph Konvitz. R. Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky (1845-1913), commonly known as the "Ridvaz," held several rabbinical posts including Babroisk, Slutsk, Chicago and Safed. Rabbi Konvitz (1878-1944) later emigrated to the United States and served as head of the Agudath HaRabanim.