Account Book of a Jerusalem Antiquarian Book-store

(LAND OF ISRAEL)

Jerusalem

1933-36

Ruled ledger

The establishment of Samuel Waxman in Me’ah She’arim was a first-rate bookstore in Jerusalem. Waxman’s account book features a list of the cream of scholarly Jerusalem: Rabbis Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook, Tzvi Pesach Frank, Dov Hakohen Kook, Yechiel Michel Hurwitz Dayan, Jacob Moses Charlap, Nathan Ra’anan, David Hakohen Hanazir, Saul Lieberman, Moshe Ostrovsky, Asher Karlinsky, Simcha Zisel Dvoretz, Asher Sandomirsky, Menachem Ushpizai, Baruch Werner, Elijah Romm, Joseph Gershon Hurwitz, David Shapira, Pinchas Graievsky, David Twersky (son of the Rebbe), Judah Leib Hakohen Fishman, Rabbi Duschinsky, Jeruchem Fischel Bernstein, Ben Zion Shapiro (son of R. Tzvi Michel), Jacob Henach Sankowitz, Simcha Asaf, Mordecai Menachem Frenkel, Benjamin Mendelsohn of Kfar Chasidim, Isaac Ornstein, etc From the books purchased, one gains insight into the literary interests and proclivities of these men who contributed so much to contemporary Jewish scholarship