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Large Collection of Reply Postcards – Activities of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis – 1949-1964

Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Over 150 reply postcards signed by rabbis, members of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis. [1959].
Printed reply postcards with questionnaires. The postcards are filled in by hand and signed by members of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis. On the margins of some postcards are various notes and short letters.
The postcards relate to five topics: mikveh observance (1949), synagogue details (1949), commitments for donations (1950), participation in the yearly meeting (1962), and a celebration in honor of R. Meir Cohen's fifteenth year of serve as administrator of the Union and publication of his Chelkat Meir (1964).
See Hebrew description for a partial list of the rabbis whose postcards appear in the collection.

154 postcards. 8.5X14 cm. Postmarks. Good condition. Minor defects.
Letters
Letters