Zecher Olam, letter by Rivkah Lipa daughter of R. Moshe Meishel Luria, sent to her family. Jerusalem: Yitzchak Gościnny, 1884. Second edition, Hebrew and Yiddish.
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 keep 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.
On the front title page is a handwritten dedication by the author, in Yiddish, with her signature: "from me, Rivkah Lipa daughter of R. [---] [Mei]shel Luria…". The dedication is incomplete due to tears on the leaf.
[1], 14, [1] leaves. Leaves bound out of sequence. Leaves 13-14 bound after leaf 8, and leaves 9-10 bound after leaf 12. 19.5 cm. Dry, brittle paper. Fair condition. Stains. Many tears, and open tears around margins of all leaves, affecting text to several leaves, including title page and endpaper (containing dedication), restored with paper filling (the entire book has been professionally restored). New leather binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 450.
