Printed leaf, poem in praise of Prince Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, recited by Jewish children in Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Salomon, Adar II 1881.
Poem in honor of Crown Prince Rudolf, son of Emperor Franz Joseph I, on the occasion of his visit to Jerusalem in 1881. The author of the poem is R. Yaakov Elyashar, Rabbi of the Sephardic community in Jerusalem at the time, and his name forms the acrostic of the poem.
Approx. 34X52 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Folding marks. Creases. Tears and open tears to margins and folds, affecting text.
Undocumented by Sh. Halevy. The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and the NLI catalog contain a leaf with identical content, but in contrast to the present leaf, name the printer as Yitzchak Gościnny.
