Sepher Shelichuth Mitzvah…Beith Moshav Zekeinim u-Zekeinoth…Tzefath

Estimate

$5,000–$7,000

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Place

Safed

Publication

circa 1900

Description

Hebrew Manuscript on paper. Title within architectural columns, ornately decorated in gold, ochre, green and blue inks

summary

Book Appointing Masoud ben Shimon as Emisary on behalf of the Old Aged Home of Safed. The volume commences with the statutes of the Moshav Zekeinim (Home for the Aged), written in Hebrew, Yiddish, English and German. It caries the endorsements of the principals of Safed: Jacob David Ridvas (Willowski), his son-in-law Joseph Konvitz, Raphael Silberman, and Abraham Werner. The book serves to record the fundraising activities of the appointed charitable emissary to the West. One follows the emissary’s travels through Romania, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, England, Italy, and Belgium. He was apparently successful as the shaliach gathered the autographed signatures of many of the most notable Jewish-European leaders of the day: Rabbis Ezra Munk and David Hoffmann, Berlin; Heinrich (Chanoch) Ehrentreu, Munich; Moses Gaster, Jacob Aryeh Twersky (Trisker Rebbe), Dayan Samuel Isaac Hillman, (Mrs.) S.D. Sassoon, Aaron Heiman, London; M. Rottenberg and Moses Avigdor Amiel, Antwerp, etc

ff. 178 (ff. 101-154 have been excised). Minor tears. Original calf, gilt-tooled lettering, loose, some wear. 4to

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