Lot 258
Postcard with a Letter Handwritten by David Gordon, to the "Committee for Supporting Rosh Pinah" – Lyck, 1883
Postcard with a letter handwritten and signed by David Gordon, to "the honorable committee for supporting Rosh Pinah". Sent from Lyck (Poland) to Mendel Grünberg in Moineşti (Romania) in 1883.
Gordon's letter deals with the expected arrival of H. Feneziani (Dr. Felix Emanuel Veneziani, the trustworthy assistant of the Baron Hirsch) to Rosh Pinah within the framework of his visit to the settlements of Palestine and addresses the economic difficulties of the settlers of Rosh Pinah.
The postcard was sent to the artist Mendel Grünberg of Moineşti – a city from which came most of the pioneers of the first wave of immigrants who established the settlement of Rosh Pinah. Grünberg was the representative of the city at the Zionist Congress in Focșani (a congress of the "Chovevei Zion" movement) in 1882, where it was decided to establish the central committee for the settlement of Palestine and Syria.
David Gordon (1831-1886), a Hebrew writer and translator, was the editor of the "Hamagid" weekly for approx. thirty years. Gordon was one of the first to disseminate the Zionist idea in the Hebrew press and who encouraged the settlement of Palestine. During the early 1880s he became an active member of the "Chibat Zion" movement and participated in the Katowice Conference (1884).
9x14 cm. Good condition. Creases, stains and minor blemishes.
