Printed leaf from the Ashkenazic Perushim kollels in Jerusalem, report on travel expenses of emissaries to Russia and Siberia on behalf of the Bikur Cholim – Shelom Yerushalayim society. Jerusalem, Tevet 1868-1869 [end of 1868 or beginning of 1869].
Copy of accounts of Bikur Cholim – Shelom Yerushalayim society, with detailed listing of financial expenses of emissaries to inner Russia and Siberia – Yitzchak of Volozhin and Ze'ev Wolf of Slutsk.
On margins of leaf, stamp of the Ashkenazic Perushim kollel.
The Shelom Yerushalayim society was founded in Minsk in 1861 by the emissary of the Perushim society R. Moshe Chashin (Chaslowitzer), in order to raise funds in Russia on behalf of the Bikur Cholim society and an establishment of a Jewish hospital in Jerusalem, to prevent the dependence of the poor of Jerusalem on the hospital of the English mission. The hospital eventually opened in 1867.
26.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and light creases. Inkstains.
Rare. Not recorded by Sh. Halevy or NLI library.
