(CARTES-DE-VISITE)

12 cartes-de-visite: M. Friedmann, Lector. On verso, handwritten message in Hebrew, signed “Meir Ish Shalom, Vienna, end Sivan 5651 [1891].” * Dr. Marcus Ehrenpreis, Grand Rabbin de Bulgarie. On verso, handwritten message in Hebrew, signed “Dr. M. Ehrenpreis” and dated 13/9 1907. * Jacob Bachrach, Bialystok. On verso, handwritten message in Hebrew addressed to N[achum] S[okolow]. * Professor Daniel Avramovich Chvolsohn. Russian in Cyrillic characters. On recto, message in Russian addressed to Sokolow. * David Frischmann, stud. phil., Breslau. On verso handwritten message [to an unnamed Sokolow] in Hebrew, dated 8 November, 1890. * S. Ben-Zion Guttman. On both sides, handwritten message in Hebrew addressed to Sokolow, signed by the literary threesome of A[lexander] Z[iskind] Rabinovitz [AZa”R], S. Ben-Zion Guttmann and Ya’akov Fichman. * Yehudah Tzevi Yevzerov, Metif le-Yishuv Eretz Yisrael [Preacher for the Settlement of Eretz Israel], Chaslavitch, Mogil[ev] Gub[ernia]. On verso, handwritten message in Hebrew addressed to N. Sokolow, signed Yehudah Tzevi be-MaHaRaM Yevzerov, datelined “u-Vanu Yerushalaim” [5650 / 1890]. [See N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim, p.158, no.7467]. * Ober-Rabbiner Dr. M. Güdemann, Vienna. On recto, handwritten message in German. * Israel Lévi, Grand Rabbin du Consistoire Central des Israelites de France. On both sides the card, handwritten message in French. * A.L. Levinski, Odessa. On both sides, handwritten message in Hebrew, discussing progressivist education in Cherson and Nikolayev, and alluding to Ussishkin. Signed. * Adwokat Dr. Leon Reich. On both sides, handwritten Polish message, dated 18.XII.1919. * Dr. H. Hildesheimer, Berlin. On recto, handwritten German message

This collection of cartes de visite represents a wide cross-section of the Jewish inteligentsia mostly of the 19th-century. Present are academicians, literati, political activists and rabbis. Many are written to the Zionist leader Nachum Sokolow