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Collection of Receipts and Signed Documents – Or Torah Yeshiva in Tiberias – 1900s-1950s

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Collection of documents, receipts and printed papers, most with signatures of the Or Torah yeshiva in Tiberias, rabbis of the Ashkenazi Chassidic community and leading Chassidim of Slonim: R. Yitzchak Matityahu Sandberg, R. Moshe Kliers Rabbi of Tiberias, R. Yisrael Kohen, R. Pinchas Mintzberg and Rebbe Avraham Weinberg [the Birkat Avraham of Slonim]. Tiberias, ca. 1900s-1950s.


Includes printed receipts, some decorated or printed in color, with signatures of the rabbis filled out by hand; two manuscript leaves, signed by R. Yitzchak Matityahu Sandberg, one with a list of scholars and students in the Or Torah yeshiva and the other with a list of teachers of the Or Torah school, and more.


R. Moshe Kliers (1874-1934), rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in Tiberias and dean of the Or Torah yeshiva. He was the son-in-law of R. Yehudah Leib Kastelanitz, leading Slonim Chassid in Tiberias, and brother-in-law of Rebbe Mordechai Chaim Slonim, who served as dayan in the Beit Din of R. Moshe Kliers.


Rebbe Avraham Weinberg (the third) of Slonim, author of Birkat Avraham (1889-1981), a dean of the Or Torah yeshiva in Tiberias and founder of the Haredi educational system in Eretz Israel. He led the Slonim community for some twenty-seven years, and served as a member of Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah.


10 items. 7 with original signature (others with photocopied signatures). Varying size. Overall good condition.

Eretz Israel – Letters and Documents
Eretz Israel – Letters and Documents