Lot 78
Collection of Missives, Letters and Emissary Letters – Sassoon Family Archives – Signatures of Eretz Israeli Rabbis, 19th and 20th Centuries
Large collection of 39 missives, letters and emissary letters, from the Sassoon family archives. With signatures of Eretz Israeli rabbis from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The collection includes letters of good wishes and thanks, requests for assistance, letters for emissaries travelling to Bombay, etc. Some are adorned with decorative titles or decorated with colored ink. Calligraphic signatures of rabbis from Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed and Tiberias.
Items include:
• Letter to R. Solomon David Sassoon from the heads of the Hebron community. • Letter to R. Solomon David Sassoon from the heads of the Chabad settlement in Hebron. • Two letters from Tiberias rabbis regarding the emissary R. David Asudri, 1890. • Ten letters of condolences from Eretz Israeli rabbis sent in Nissan 1894 to Farha (Flora) Sassoon upon the death of her husband, R. Solomon David Sassoon. • Three missives from Tiberias rabbis regarding the mission of R. Eliezer Mantzur Sighon in 1897. • Letter from Baghdad rabbis, to Farha (Flora) Sassoon. 1899. • Emissary letter for R. Shmuel Meyuchas of Jerusalen, sent by Sephardi Jerusalemite rabbis to Farha Sassoon. 1900. • Letter to R. Joseph Elias David Ezra, by the Rishon L'Zion R. Ya'akov Shaul Elyashar, 1891. • Letter to R. Joseph Elias David Ezra. From the rabbis of the Talmud Torah of the Sephardi community in Jerusalem, 1893.• Many more letters.
For further details see Hebrew description.
A detailed list is available upon request.
Most of the letters in this collection were printed in the book Perakim BeToldot Yahadut Bavel, by Avraham Ben Ya'akov, Jerusalem 1989. A minority were printed in Nachalat Avot, Asufat Genazim MiBeit Mishpachat Sassoon, Jerusalem 2007, and three have not yet been printed.
39 letters. Size and condition vary (most in good condition).
Provenance: The Sassoon Family Collection.
