Sisters Tamar and Rachel Hirschenson. Autograph Album. With greetings from delegates attending the Sixth Zionist Congress in Basle. Includes Dr. Nahum Slouschz.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $400

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author

(ZIONISM).

Place

Basle-London-Glasgow

Publication

1903-04

Description

Manuscript written in various hands in Hebrew, German, English and French. With related newspaper inserts and portrait of Theodor Herzl.

summary

Rabbi Chaim Hirschenson (1857-1935) allowed his young daughters to accompany him from Constantinople to Basle (via London) to attend the Zionist Congress. Among the contributions to this album, much is made of the the girls fluency in spoken Hebrew. In later life, Tamar Hirschenson married David de Sola Pool, Rabbi of Cong. Shearith Israel, New York.

pp. 17 (excluding blanks). Few pages loose. Original decorative boards. Oblong 8vo.

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