Pinkas Shadar-Yeshivah Torath Chaim, Jerusalem. Ledger Book of the emmisary Aaron Isaac Zaslansky, the editor of the journal Sha’arei Zion, for his journey in 1927 to the United States to solicit funds for the Yeshivah

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Jerusalem

1927

Aschkenazic square and cursive Hebrew scripts in various hands. Black ink on paper. Title page within decorative red border, with lettering in gold, silver and bronze inks

With introductory letters of recommendation, signed by the Rosh Yeshivah, R. Zerach Epstein. Autograph letters of recommendation, signed in Hebrew and English with stamps by Rabbis by Abraham Isaac Kook and Joseph Chaim Sonnenfeld. With several testemonial letters from communites visited by Zaslansky on his travels, including: Rabbis Moses Zevulan Margulies (RaMa”Z) of New York; Joseph Konvitz, of Newark, NJ; B. Notelevitz, Harrisburg, PA; S. Krevsky, Allentown, PA and R. I. Siegal, Bayonne, NJ