Consistoire de Paris. Six appeals from the Second Empire period.

(FRENCH JUDAICA)

Paris

1856-64

Each text on a separate bifolium. Unbound.

(i) and (ii) Oeuvre dite Malbush Arumim. pp. 3; 10 x 8 inches, 1856. * And: pp. 3; 8 x 5 inches, 1856. Two printings of the same three-page appeal for the Consistoire de Paris Welfare Committee’s used clothing operation. The folio version is anonymous but dated (1856); the octavo version is undated but signed in print by its author--Albert Cohn, Baron James de Rothschild’s scholarly almoner and the president of the Consistoire’s Welfare Committee. (iii) L’authorité nous demande. pp. 1; 10 x 8 inches, 1860. Appeal from the Secretariat of the Consistoire de Paris on the rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth to all synagogue administrators. Their assistance is requested in complying with the Government’s requirement that the Consistoire conduct a census of Jews in Paris. (iv) Caisse de Secours. pp. 1; 10 x 8 inches, 1864. Constitution of the Consistoire central’s rescue fund for distressed rabbis, cantors, Jewish educators, and their widows and children. Endorsed by Consistoire central leaders M. Cerfberr, S. Munk, A. de Rothschild, and others. (v) Appeal for help repaying the new 500,000 franc loan obtained by the Consistoire de Paris for the building of synagogues, in addition to the 1,500,000 loan previously obtained for the purpose. 11 x 8 inches, 1864. (vi) Souscription en faveur de l’hospice des enfants. pp. 3; 11 x 8 inches, 1864. Baron James de Rothschild had made a gift of 30,000 francs for a capital project to turn the Paris Jewish community’s nursing home for children on the rue Picpus into a state-of-the-art Jewish children’s hospital. The new institution, however, was going cost 10,000 francs a year more than the old one to run, hence this appeal to the public.