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Extensive collection of c. 500 Autograph Letters and manuscripts pages, all written in Hebrew.

Auction 80 · Lot 149

Extensive collection of c. 500 Autograph Letters and manuscripts pages, all written in Hebrew.

Estimate
$5,000–$7,000
Hammer price
$6,500

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

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Place

V.p

Publication

1890’s

Description

Correspondence is overwhelmingly between Dayan of New York and St. Louis Dov-Ber Abramowitz (1860-1926) along with the Shadar R. Ya’akov Yitzchak Teitelbaum, all written to Chief Rabbi Shmuel Salant (1816–1909) and the Vaad Haklali of Jerusalem, concerning fund-raising throughout America for the benefit of the poor and indigent of Eretz Israel. * Includes additional correspondence from many American Rabbis concerning financial contributions sent to Jerusalem.

summary

Levinthal, Dov Aryeh (Philadelphia). Sachs, Zecharia (Cleveland). Paley,Ozer (Cleveland). Schwartz, Mordechai (Cleveland). Rosenberg, Shraga (Cleveland). Berger, Yaakov Yisrael (Cleveland). Rosenberg, Shabsi (Brooklyn). Rosenberg, Avraham Chaim (New York). Elefant, B. Yoseph (Benton Harbor). Feinberg, Zalman (Providence. Gilfand, Moshe (Semifalatinskol). Orliansky, Tzvi Hirsch (New York). Abrams, I. (Portland). Geffen, Tuvia (Atlanta). Lipschitz, Avraham (Fall River). Shapiro, Yisrael Issar ben Raphael (Yaffo). Charney, Aharon R. (Bayonne). Inselbuch, E. (Brooklyn). Simckes, H. (Mattapan). Levin, Shlomo Yitzchak (Minneapolis). Eliasov,Eliahu (Johannesburg). Isaacs, Harris (Johannesburg). Shapiro, Yaakov (Cape Town). Blacher, Nathan (Turetz). Hesselberg, S. (Limerick). Zipper, Shimon (Fall River). Shapiro, Baruch (Seattle). Olesky, Yehuda (Cape Town). Burstein, M. (Kansas City). Lippman, B. A. (Hartford). Strauss, I. (Pontiac). Strelitz, H. (Cape Province). Simon, M. (Halifax). Waknin, J. (Tiberias). Smaja, H. (Tiberias). Shitrit, M. (Tiberias). Waknin, M. (Tiberias). Bibas, R. (Tiberias). Zrehen, J. (Tiberias). Lerner.E. S. (Hartford). Jaffe, Y. (Springfield). Schon, S. (Fall River). Charlap, Y. M. (Omaha). Shuchatowitz, A. Y. (Bronx). Hirsch, Meir (San Francisco). Freyman, A. H. (Clarksdale). Twersky,Y. (Cape Town). Ruslin, A. (Sheffield). Goodman, T. (Baltimore). Levinson, S. (Petersburg). Jaffe, Shalom Elchanan (New York).
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