Oloth Habrith

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

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(JERUSALEM)

printer

Judah & Jerusalem

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

(1878)

Description

Printed Broadside. Text in Hebrew

summary

Broadside issued by the Aschkenazi Rabbis of Jerusalem reaffirming their ruling forbidding the secular education of Jewish children in the Holy City of Jerusalem “under pain of excommunication.” The Rabbis stress that even the teaching of the Arabic language is forbidden as is the tutoring in private of a stdent. Signed by Rabbis Joshua Leib Diskin of Brisk and his Beth Din, Joseph Chaim Sonnenfeld, Eliezer Menachem Biderman and Mordechai Eliezer Weber, among others

Single folio leaf. Browned. Framed

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