Online Auction 012 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Collection of "Yahrzeit" Leaves for Hanging in a Synagogue / Leaf Designed by Shlomo Yedidiya Seelenfreund

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Seven Yahrzeit and "Hazkarat Neshamot" leaves, with spaces for inserting names of the deceased. Most leaves are decorated with drawings of graves and holy sites in Palestine, and with verses.
1. Leaf designed by Shlomo Yedidiya Seelenfreund. Printed for Yeshivat Hevron, Jerusalem. Printed by Lith. Press A. Kaufman, Tel Aviv, [1940s].
2-3. Two leaves printed on behalf of Talmud Torah Mea Shearim, Jerusalem. [Jerusalem, first decades of 20th century].
4. Memorial certificate for inscription in "Yeshivat Ohel Moshe" records, Jerusalem, [1930s].
5. Yahrzeit leaf. 1950s. Inscribed by hand on the leaf, in black and golden ink, are names of the deceased Menachem Ben Zion son of R. Avraham and Geesha Reisl daughter of R. Moshe Yehudah Leib Nisnbaum.
7. Yahrzeit leaf, 1950s-60s. Among drawings of holy sites appears a drawing of a crematorium surrounded by the verse "Remember what Amalek did to you".
Seven leaves, size and condition vary.
Travels in Palestine, Maps and Photography
Travels in Palestine, Maps and Photography