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Auction 1 · Lot 292

Autograph letter signed, in (rather poor) Yiddish, on headed paper, to Shneur Zalman Pevsner, complaining of bad health and intentions to move from Palestine to America

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
$300

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

BEILIS, MENACHEM MENDEL (Victim of infamous 1911 blood-libel charge, 1874-1934).

Place

Jaffa

Publication

5th Nissan, n.y

summary

Following Beilis’s acquittal of charges of ritual murder, he moved with his family from Russia to Palestine. In 1920 he settled in the United States
1p., verso taped along margins and folds, 4to
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