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Auction 80 · Lot 141

Group of c. 30 letters and manuscripts, written in Hebrew, German and English.

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
$1,600

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

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Place

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Publication

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Description

Including: * Documents relating to the trafficking of 15-year old Chaja Wind brought from Poland to America. With the help of the Committee for Combating the Trafficking of Girls, a Jewish organization which fought this scourge, Chaja’s mother Sheindel attempted to obtain the release of her daughter. * Hebrew Manuscript of 7-pages recording names and addresses of Jews in Albany NY and donations received. (1909). * Recommendation for Rabbi Abraham Chaim Epp of San Francisco upon his retirement to Eretz Israel. (1912).
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