Sepher Zikaron. Talmud Torah-Torath Eretz Yisrael, Safed. Volume of Testamonial Letters, Visitors and Donors to the Yeshivah Torath Eretz Yisrael in Safed, under the leadership of Rabbi Jacob David Ridva”z and his son-in-law Joseph Konvitz

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(LAND OF ISRAEL).

Place

Safed

Publication

1907-14

Description

Aschkenazic and Sephardic square and rabbinic Hebrew scripts in several hands. Black and blue inks on paper. Each page with monogram of the Yeshivah. Title within decorative gilt border, lettering in brown and black inks

summary

Includes: Secretarial copy of letter from R. Chaim Soloveichik of Brisk in support of the Yeshivah; entries by Chaim Nahum, Chief Rabbi of Turkey; Nissim Danon, Rabbi of Beruit; Nachum Sokolov; secretarial copies of letters from the Chassidic Grand Rabbis of Boyan, Tcherkov, Husyatin, Sadigura and Tzernowitz, signed by the Gabbaim, among others

ff. (47), excluding blanks. Lightly browned. Contemporary gilt-tooled brown mottled calf, spine in compartments, gently rubbed at extremities. 4to

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