Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Collection of Leaves and Notes Signed by Kollel Officials in Jerusalem – 1890s-1940s
Opening: $800
Sold for: $2,750
Including buyer's premium
Huge assorted collection of over 240 documents from the archive of the Vaad HaKlali in Jerusalem: letters, certificates, receipts, commitments, payment authorizations, lists of beneficiaries, notes and various paper items. Most written on official stationeries of the kollels and Torah and charitable institutions of Jerusalem, with official stamps, and signatures of kollel officials. Jerusalem, ca. 1890s-1940s.
A rare window into the halukka system's distribution of funds, and the support and economic and organizational activity of kollels and public institutions in Jerusalem, documenting many individuals from the Ashkenazic Old Yishuv. The items include, for example, instructions to pay kollel members who won funding from Montefiore's funds, administrated by the Vaad HaKlali; instructions for payments for urgent matters such as sickness; signed commitments to repay loans from future halukka funds, including signed notes from officials who took loans from the Vaad HaKlali during World War I, committing to repay them within three months of the end of the war.
These include signatures by administrators of Torah and charitable institutions in Jerusalem; officials of the Vaad HaKlali Knesset Yisrael; officials of the kollels Shomrei HaChomot; Galicia; Warsaw Ezrat Yisrael; Volhynia, Ukraine and Zhitomir; Belarus, Grodno and Chabad; Slonim, Karlin, Pinsk and Koidanov; Vizhnitz and Kosov; Romania, Bucharest, Maramureș, Moldova, Wallachia and Bessarabia; Bukovina; and America.
See Hebrew description for a list of individuals whose signatures appear in the present collection.
Approx. 250 paper items. Varying size and condition.
Letters – Chassidut
Letters – Chassidut