Seven postcards, a letter and two stubs of postal payment vouchers, with autograph letters from Alexander Siskind Rabinovitz. The letters were sent to the researcher and author Avraham Kahana, from Poltava and from Jaffa, to Zhitomir and Kiev, 1903-1906.
Letters concerning literary issues and sale and distribution of books, royalties and payments, printing of essays and books, biblical commentary, novellae, and other matters. In one of the postcards Azar asks about the condition of Kahana after he heard that "there were murders in your area… am not asking about you since I know that you find no peace in this bloody land".
Alexander Siskind Rabinovitz (Azar, 1854-1945) - author, editor, biographer and prolific translator who published about 100 books during his lifetime. He translated scholarly Talmudic books by Binyamin Ze'ev Bachar and published a translation of the Song of Songs, commentary on the Book of Job, biblical commentaries, Tanaim and Amoraim Aggadas, and more.
Size varies. Fair condition. Two postcards on very dark paper. Filing holes to some items. Worming to one postcard. Stains.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.