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Zecher Olam – Letter of Rivkah Lipa – Jerusalem, 1884 – Printed by Gościnny

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Zecher Olam, letter by Rivkah Lipa daughter of R. Moshe Meishel Luria, sent to her family. Jerusalem: Yitzchak Gościnny, 1884. Second edition, Yiddish with Hebrew translation.
The booklet contains a letter written by Rivkah Lipa to her sons and brother in Cracow (as she goes on to note, some of them had immigrated to the United States and other countries), stressing her illustrious parentage, her trials and tribulations in Eretz Israel and her visits to gravesites of Tzaddikim in Eretz Israel, with encouragement to observe the Torah and mitzvot.
On the last leaf the author thanks R. Chaim Berlin and his wife, R. Zalman Levin and his wife, and many of her family members.

[1], 14, [1] leaves. 19 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor defects. Stamps. New wrapper.

Sh. Halevy, no. 450.
Jerusalem and Palestine – Early Printed Books
Jerusalem and Palestine – Early Printed Books