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Auction 1 · Lot 289

Autograph letter signed, in Yiddish, to the Department of Education of the Jewish Community of Vilna, concerning educational matters and organizational representation in Warsaw.

Estimate
$300–$400
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

AN-SKI, Sh. (pseud. of Solomon Zanwill Rapaport, author and folklorist, 1863(?)-1920)

Place

Warsaw(?)

Publication

25th September, 1919

summary

In 1918 An-ski helped reorganize the Vilna community following the ravages of World War I. In 1919, he resettled in Warsaw, where his last undertaking was the foundation of a Jewish ethnographic society (removed to Vilna after his death)
4pp., previous owner’s stamp, light wear, folio
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