Printed leaf, Yerushalayim TIten Kolah – call for tzedakah collectors in England and America to support the united fundraising effort of three institutions: the Etz Chaim Torah school and yeshiva and the Bikur Cholim hospital, on the authority of R. Shmuel Salant and the rabbis of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Kislev 1889.

The bottom of the leaf contains R. Shmuel Salant's signature in print, as well as the signatures of R. Avraham Abba Yaakov Sendrowitz, R. Moshe Eliezer Dan Ralbag, along with other rabbis and officials. The poster is stamped with an original stamp of the Etz Chaim Torah school and yeshiva.

[1] leaf. 27 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Folding marks. Tears to folds, repaired with tape. Small marginal open tear. New binding.
Rare. Does not appear in Sh. Halevy.
Provenance: Formerly of the collection of Dr. I. Mehlman, with his handwritten inscriptions.

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Printed proclamation regarding "schools" in Jerusalem, by the Sephardi sages of Jerusalem, with a call to join the cherem of the Ashkenazi rabbis of Jerusalem, placed on the new school, Lemel, founded by Dr. Ludwig Frankel. [Jerusalem: printer not indicated, 1882].

The Lemel school was founded in Jerusalem by the affluent Lemel family from Austria, headed by the teacher and journalist Ludwig August Frankel. The school served as a hostel for needy children and for orphans, and its curriculum included general studies and foreign languages, incorporating song and dance, and many games and activities for the children. The Yishuv HaYashan firmly opposed the establishment of the school, and the Ashkenazi sages of Jerusalem were very wary of the general studies and foreign languages and new teaching methods in the school. The leading Jerusalem rabbis headed by the Maharil Diskin and R. Shmuel Salant proclaimed a cherem on the school, as a continuation of the cherem of Jerusalem rabbis from 1866.
This proclamation announces the joining of the Sephardi rabbis with the Ashkenazi rabbis in proclaiming a cherem on the school. It begins with trenchant words by the Kabbalist R. Yedidyah Raphael Abulafiya, who joins the opposition of the Ashkenazi rabbis against the school and against its principal, Dr. Frankel. Further in the proclamation, this stance is supported by more sages: R. Nisim Yisrael Sassoon, R. Rephael Elazar HaLevi and others.
At that time, "schools" was the common name used for the new schools, which incorporated secular subjects into their curriculum such as history, science and foreign languages.

21X34 cm. Good condition. Few stains. Folding mark and creases. Minor tears. Handwritten inscriptions.
The proclamation is not recorded by Sh. Halevy and in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. Only a photocopy appears in the NLI catalogue.

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Printed poster, Tochachat Megulah, letters of Jerusalem rabbis relating to the controversy surrounding the ban against schools in Jerusalem which adopted secular studies in their curriculum. [Jerusalem: printer not indicated, 1887].

The poster protests the treatment of R. Leib Chefetz, a leading Torah scholar in the city, and contains sharp criticism of Dr. Ze'ev Wilhelm Herzberg, R. Chaim Hirschensohn and others. R. Leib Chefetz had been sent by R. Yehoshua Leib (Maharil) Diskin to declare a ban against the schools, whereupon he was beaten by partisans of the schools and arrested by the authorities.

[1] leaf, approx. 25X38 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Wear. Creases and folding marks. Many tears around margins, including open tears, as well as small tears to folds at center of leaf, slightly affecting text. Pencil markings inside text.

Not documented by Sh. Halevy.
Provenance: Formerly of the collection of Dr. I. Mehlman, with his handwritten inscriptions on the reverse side of the poster.

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Kedushat Eretz Yisrael BaZman HaZeh, by R. Chaim Eliezer Hausdorf. Jerusalem: M. Lilienthal, [1889].

This booklet opposes the Heter Mechirah, an allowance for agricultural work in the Shemitah year by sale of the land to a non-Jew. The author discusses the article by R. Meir HaLevi Levin (Berditchev, 1889) permitting Heter Mechirah.

[1], 14 pages. 17.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Many tears, including open tears to title page and many other places, affecting text, repaired with paper filling (repaired around margins of all leaves). New binding.

Sh. Halevy, no. 647.


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Devar HaShemitah, anthology of letters of rabbis supporting Heter Mechirah, edited by R. Yitzchak Hirschensohn. Jerusalem: Yitzchak Hirschensohn, 1888.

The book contains articles published in periodicals, most by R. Yaakov Mordechai Hirschensohn, the author's father, supporting Heter Mechirah, an allowance for agricultural work in the Shemitah year by sale of the land to a non-Jew.

[2], 110 pages. Approx. 19 cm (uneven trimming). Dry paper. Overall good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. New binding.

Sh. Halevy, no. 614.


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