Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Compilation of Letters and Documents – From the Archive of Rabbi Shmuel Salant

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Compilation of letters and documents, letters sent to Rabbi Shmuel Salant, printed letters (without signatures) and proclamations by Rabbi Shmuel Salant, etc. Among the letters: An interesting letter from Rabbi Yechiel Brill editor of HaLevanon about etrogim grown in Eretz Israel and in Corfu. Mainz, 1877. · Envelope of a letter sent to Rabbi Shmuel with the handwriting of Rabbi Chaim Berlin, two gematriot of 1909, one with the name and the other with the title of Rabbi Shmuel Salant. · Handwritten leaf "Open letter from Zion and Jerusalem" and a printed proclamation "True speech will last forever" – reactions and responses to slander printed in the Abendblatt newspaper published in NY, reporting that Rabbi Shmuel Salant was not healthy and was, in fact, following the whims of the secretary of the Va'ad HaKlali, Rabbi Yosef Rivlin. Adar 1896. · Letters from 1895 about slander and disparagement of community institutes in Jerusalem, printed in the HaZvi newspaper of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. · More. 14 items, size and condition vary. Overall good condition. Rabbi Shmuel Salant's letters were usually written by his team of scribes and secretaries and signed with his signature or stamp. Some of the letters (unsigned) in this collection probably originated in the archive of Rabbi Shmuel Salant.
Jerusalem Rabbis and Public Institutions – Letters, Manuscripts and Archives
Jerusalem Rabbis and Public Institutions – Letters, Manuscripts and Archives