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Printed booklet, Kol Yerushalayim, anthology of rabbis' letters, prohibiting and proclaiming a cherem on new schools which teach secular subjects. Jerusalem: [Yoel Moshe Salomon]. 1887.
The booklet begins with harsh criticism of the "schools" which introduce the study of secular subjects and foreign languages, bearing the printed signatures of many Jerusalem rabbis.
The booklet includes a printed copy of the rabbis' letter from 1857, against the Lemel school, one of the first schools in Jerusalem which incorporated secular subjects, bearing the signatures of R. Shmuel Salant and R. Yosef Zundel of Salant, and many more rabbis; a letter from 1862 signed by R. Moshe Yehuda Leib Silberberg of Kutno (author of Zayit Raanan) and by R. Nachum of Shadik (Szadek), and another letter by R. Meir Auerbach rabbi of Kalisz (Kalisch) and Jerusalem, author of Imrei Bina.
Apparently, the booklet was printed by R. Yaakov Yehuda Leib Levi, head of the Jerusalem Beit Din, younger brother of R. Nachum of Shadik. His name and address appear at the end of the booklet.
"Schools" was the name commonly used for the new schools, which taught secular subjects such as history, science and foreign languages.
Double leaf ([4] printed pages). Approx. 34 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Wear. Folding marks and creases. Many tears, including open tears (including a tear in the center of a leaf), affecting text, restored with adhesive tape. Unbound.
Sh. Halevy, no. 601.
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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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Kol MeHeichal, announcement from the rabbis of Jerusalem for the upcoming Shemitah year (1888-1889), calling for assistance to the farmers of the Shemitah-observant moshavot. With original stamps of R. Yehoshua Leib (Maharil) Diskin, R. Shmuel Salant and the Beit Din of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem. [Jerusalem, 1888].
Call for assistance from Jews of the Diaspora for contributions to the moshavot in Eretz Israel in the shemitah year of 1888-1889. With printed signatures of thirty rabbis of Jerusalem.
Below the call for assistance is a notice from R. Shmuel Salant and R. Yehoshua Leib Diskin disqualifying the Heter Mechirah and forbidding agricultural work by both Jews and non-Jews during the shemitah year, stamped by R. Yehoshua Leib Diskin, R. Shmuel Salant and the Beit Din of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem.
In anticipation of the 1889 shemitah year, representatives of the moshavot asked rabbis of Lithuania and Russia for an allowance for agricultural work by sale of the land to a non-Jew. This lit a controversy participated in by leading rabbis of the generation. The Ashkenazi rabbis of Jerusalem, headed by R. Diskin and R. Salant, refused to approve of Heter Mechirah.
[1] leaf. Approx. 25X40 cm. Good-fair condition. Light stains. Folding marks. Tears to fold and center of the leaf, without loss. Open tear in margins of leaf, not affecting text.
Not recorded by Sh. Halevy.
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![Kedushat Eretz Yisrael BaZman HaZeh, by R. Chaim Eliezer Hausdorf. Jerusalem: M. Lilienthal, [1889].
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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, by R. Eliezer Eliyahu Wallenstein – letters of rabbis and opposition to Heter Mechirah. Jerusalem: Zichron Shlomo, sons of R. Y. L. Löwy, 1889.
Contains halachic rulings supporting and opposing Heter Mechirah, an allowance for agricultural work in the Shemitah year by sale of the land to a non-Jew. Stamps (Hebrew and English).
26 pages. 16 cm. Dry paper. Good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves, repaired with paper filling. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 648.
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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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Eizo Hi Mishnah, on the history of the Mishnah from the giving of the Torah until R. Yehudah HaNasi, by R. Chaim Hirschensohn. Jerusalem: printed by the author R. Chaim Hirschensohn, 1890.
On second leaf, printed dedication to Dr. Azriel Hildesheimer in honor of his 70th birthday. At the top of the leaf, the author adds a handwritten dedication (somewhat trimmed).to "Dr. Chazanowitz" (apparently Dr. Yosef Chazanowitz, a founder of the Midrash Abarbanel library, today the National Library of Israel).
[3] leaves (and another blank leaf), 46 pages. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Light stains. Open tear to title page, slightly affecting title frame, repaired with paper to verso. Handwritten inscriptions. New leather binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 692.
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