Petition from Elijah Jacobs, formerly of Manchester, presently of Jerusalem, to Sir Moses Montefiore

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

30th Shevat

Manchester

1870

Hebrew in petite square characters

In 1856, Elijah was sent by his father Solomon Jacob Jacobs from his native Manchester to Jerusalem. After spending 13 years in intense study of Torah, the erstwhile Englishman was sent by Kollel Ungaren to England on a fund-raising mission. (Plans to continue on to America were scuttled by Chief Rabbi Dr. Adler.) Having left his wife and three children behind in Jerusalem without appropriate living conditions, tJacobs requests that Sir Moses allow them to take up residence in "Kerem Moshe V’Yehudith," a neighborhood in Jerusalem recently established by the munificence of Sir Moses and Lady Judith Montefiore