(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 189

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Fine collection of c.25 Autograph Letters Signed, postcards, New Year greetings and other signed materials. Including: * 1. Shlomo Zalman BaHaRaN (Rabbinical scholar and communal leader of Jerusalem, 1834-1909). Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, written to his son. Halachic topics concerning laws of Gittin. * 2. Ya’akov Mordechai Hirschenson (Rosh Yeshiva in Safed and Jerusalem. Dec’d. 1893). Autograph Letter Signed, one page, written to his relative R. Abraham (apparently residing in Pinsk). Relates he has in his possession a beautiful manuscript written by the Vilna Gaon “worth more than all my possessions.” Safed, 1851. * 3. Avraham Eisenstein of Dorhitzin (Dayan in Jerusalem and Safed, 1800-86). Autograph Manuscript Signed, four pages, halachic novellae concerning Maimonides and various Talmudic tractates. * 4. Avraham Ashkenazi (Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Land of Israel, 1825-80). Autograph Manuscript Signed, two pages, responsa concerning an inheritance issue between Vilna and Jerusalem. * 5. Eliahu Moshe Panigel (Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Land of Palestine, 1850-1919). Autograph Letter Signed Letter, one page, to Dr. Wallach thanking him for assisting in the birth of his daughter. 1909. * 6. Ya’akov Meir (Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Land of Palestine, 1856-1939). Scribal Letter Signed, two pages, requesting the Jews of the Diaspora purchase matzah from the flour mills of Haifa. 19th Kislev, 1927. * 7. Moshe Avigdor Amiel (Chief Rabbi Antwerp and Tel Aviv, 1882-1945). Autograph Letter Signed to M. D. Gross, concerning political matters. 1936. Plus, eight New Year’s Greetings with original envelopes and cards sent to Rav Amiel from various Rabbis and other notables including R. Zalman Sorotzkin, R. Eliezer Yehudah Waldenberg, R. Tuviah Yehuda Tavyomi and others. * 8. Meir Berlin (Later, Bar Ilan. President of Mizrachi. 1880-1949). Three Letters Signed pertaining to Mizrachi matters. 1915-39. As well as letters from R. Ezriel Hausdorf, Jerusalem, R. Chaim Nachum, Chief Rabbi Cairo, Chief Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman, R. Zev Gold and others. Various sizes, various condition.

Est: $5,000 - $7,000