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Auction 28 · Lot 305
(AMERICAN JUDAICA)
- Estimate
- $1,500–$2,000
- Hammer price
- $1,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
New York
Publication
1846
Description
N. Phillips. Autograph Letter Signed, in English (with some Hebrew and Yiddish words) to (Tzvi) Hirsch Lehren of Amsterdam, concerning contributions by the “Hebra Tarumot Hakodesh” from the ”Sedaka boxes in the vestibule of the Synagogue of the Cong. Shearith Israel and...the box at the Bet Haim (cemetery)...for the benefit of our poor brethren in the Holy Land.” Also mentions Gershom Kursheedt (1817-1863) and other individual contributors
summary
In order to organize and simplify the system by which money was raised in wealthier Jewish communities to benefit indigent Jews in Eretz Israel, Tzvi Hirsch Lehren (1784-1853), and other leading members of the Jewish Community in Amsterdam, co-founded in 1809 the Pekidim and Amarkalim Society of the Holy Land. By 1824, they had succeed in becoming the exclusive collecting agency for the Jews of Eretz Israel. See EJ, X col.1584
pp. 3. Integral address panel (with Liverpool postal-mark)
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