Archive of the Chief Sephardi Cantor Shimon Uziel: documents and certificates, manuscripts and letters. Salonika, Sarajevo and Tel-Aviv, ca. 1926-1956. Various languages.
The archive includes: · Three manuscript volumes, with homilies and novellae on the Torah, by R. Shimon Uziel. · Documents and official certificates, personal letters, letters from various institutions and public figures, drafts of Torah thoughts (sermons for Bar Mitzvah). Letters, documents and certificates from various communities: Salonika – where R. Shimon was born and raised, Sarajevo, Banja Luka (Bosnia), and others.
R. Shimon Uziel, a native of Salonika, served as cantor and religious functionary in Constantinople and Sarajevo. He immigrated to Eretz Israel where he was appointed Sephardi Chief Cantor in Tel-Aviv, and was employed as an official in the Chief Rabbinate of Tel-Aviv.
3 manuscript volumes and approx. 70 paper items, hundreds of leaves. Varying size and condition.