A letter handwritten and signed by Benjamin Disraeli, addressed to Phillip Rose. Written on the official letterhead of 10 Downing Street. [London], August 1868. English.
A letter by Benjamin Disraeli to his friend and advisor Sir Phillip Rose (1816-1883). In the letter, Disraeli informs Rose of the decision to award knighthood to "Mr. Watkin, the member for Stockport" [presumably, Edward Watkin (1819-1901), member of the British parliament for Stockport between 1864 and 1868).
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), a British statesman and novelist who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (in 1868 and in 1874-1880). Disraeli, born Jewish, was baptized in his youth. Remaining proud of his Jewish ancestry, he worked to achieve full civil rights for the Jews of Britain. He also supported the idea of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine.
[1] leaf folded in half (three written pages), 17.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Stains.

A letter by Moses Montefiore to the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire Nathan Marcus Adler. Written by a secretary on official stationery and hand-signed by Montefiore. Ramsgate (England), November 5639 (1878). English.
A letter dealing with donations for the poor of Palestine, signed by Moses Montefiore (in English).
Montefiore, who headed the Sephardic community of London, had a long-standing friendship with Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler (1803-1890), the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. The cordial relationship between the two, which was accompanied by extensive correspondence, led to cooperation in a variety of community projects, including raising funds for the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine. Adler, who by the power of his position as Chief Rabbi headed the United Synagogue in London, an organization that united all the orthodox communities of Britain, gathered the funds raised by the synagogues and sent them to Palestine through Montefiore's representatives.
[1] leaf (three written pages), 19.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Minor stains.

An argumentative letter dealing with the future of Zionism, handwritten and signed by Asher Zvi Ginzberg, "Achad Ha'am". [London], June 20, 1909.
This letter was written after Achad Ha'am had published an article in the journal "HaOmer" and after criticism and various responses to the article were published. Achad Ha'am addresses the spiritual conquest of the Land of Israel as opposed to its physical conquest, the issue of Hebrew education and his conceptual opponent, Simon Dubnow. The letter is addressed to M. Rabinowitz (presumably, the journalist and Zionist activist Michl Yitzchak Rabinowitz).
[1] leaf, folded in half (two written pages), approx. 20 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes. Fold lines. Small tear to edge, minute hole to intersection of the fold lines. Pen notation to bottom of second page.

A handwritten leaf from the estate of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. [Late 19th century or the first decades of the 20th century].
The leaf, presumably written as part of Ben-Yehuda's work on The Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew – The Ben-Yehuda Dictionary, refers to the translations of the word "Maskit" in the biblical verse "apples of gold in pictures of silver" (Proverbs 25: 11).
Mounted on a leaf from a book, with an inked stamp and a postage stamp (presumably, the leaf was taken from the first edition of the book "Ben Yehuda Chayav UMifalo" by Chemda Ben Yehuda, ca. 1940. Each copy of this edition featured an autograph page by Ben-Yehuda).
[1] leaf, 22.5 cm (folded and mounted on a 19 cm leaf). Good condition. Creases and minor stains. Fold lines. Some tears to edges (mostly small).

A letter by Kalonymus Ze'ev Wissotzky to the principal of the Hebrew school in Jaffa, Meir Angel. Written by a secretary on official stationery and hand-signed by Wissotzky. Odessa, September 1896.
The letter informs the principal of the Hebrew school in Jaffa of the decision of the Odessa Committee of Hovevei Zion to donate 25,000 franks to the purchase of land, on which a new building will be built for the school. In addition, Wissotzky mentions his intention to travel to Paris in the summer to meet with the Alliance Israélite Universelle vice-president Narcisse Leven and secretary Jacques Bigard to try and secure an additional donation of 50,000 franks for the establishment of the new building. Wissotzky offers several guidelines for the upcoming negotiations with the landowner and writes that although he intends to make up the difference if any amount is lacking, it should be conveyed "to the seller that you cannot pay any more" (Hebrew).
At the end of the letter, Wissotzky compliments the choice of Hebrew as the language of instruction and announces a further modest donation: 200 franks for the translation of textbooks into Hebrew and 100 franks to the "Sha'ar Zion" Hospital in Jaffa.
The letter is hand-signed by Wissotzky, with a postscript in his handwriting – "regards to Mr. Grazovsky" (lexicographer and writer Yehuda Gur, senior teacher at the Hebrew school in Jaffa).
The Hebrew school in Jaffa was established in 1892 at the initiative of a number of Jewish educators of the first Aliyah (Israel Belkind, Yehuda Gur, the principal Meir Angel and others). The institution, a pioneer of Hebrew-language schools in Palestine, was jointly managed by Hovevei Zion and Alliance Israélite Universelle. Due to disagreements regarding the language of instruction in 1902, Alliance Israélite Universelle became the exclusive manager of the school. In 1908, its new building was inaugurated in the Neveh Tzeddek neighborhood (today, the Suzanne Dellal Center).
Kalonymus (Kalman) Ze'ev Wissotzky (1824-1904), businessman, philanthropist and activist in the Hovevei Zion movement in Russia, founder of the Wissotzky Tea Company. In his youth, he studied at the Volozhin Yeshiva and was a disciple of Rabbi Israel of Salant. In 1849, he founded the Wissotzky Tea Company in Moscow, which controlled a third of the Russian tea market. He invested much of his time and fortune in supporting Jewish and Zionist institutions and in 1884, participated in the Katowice Conference. In 1885, he visited Palestine as an emissary of Hovevei Zion, mediated between the old and new Yishuv and established an office of the executive committee of the Odessa Committee in Jaffa. In his will, he bequeathed his share of the Wissotzky Tea Company, amounting to about one million rubles, to charity (part of this sum was used for the establishment of the Technion in Haifa).
[1] leaf folded in half – [2] written pages, 28 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Minor creases. Filing holes and several small holes to margins. Closed tears and small open tears to margins.