Handwritten booklet (three leaves) – emissary letter for R. Yehoshua Stampfer, leaving on a mission on behalf of Kollel Shomrei HaChomot, with many signatures of the trustees and notables of the Hungarian community in Jerusalem. Sivan 1893. Hebrew and German (2 pages written and signed in Hebrew, and 4 pages written and signed in German).
The booklet begins with a lengthy letter in Hebrew, in neat script. For the mission of R. Yehoshua Stampfer (1852–1908; a founder of Petach Tikva, accomplished activist who devoted himself to supporting Torah and building Eretz Israel), who was travelling to raise funds for the Hungarian Kollel in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed and Tiberias. With the handwritten signatures of R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, R. Yitzchak Oplatka of Prague, R. Moshe Nachum Wallenstein, and many others (see Hebrew description).
The booklet also contains [4] written pages in German, with several stamps and signatures (in German) of the Kollel trustees.
Lengthy inscription by R. Yitzchak Oplatka–Prague (1820–1900), one of the last disciples of the Chatam Sofer, as he refers to himself in this letter.
[3] leaves (6 written pages). 29 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, wear and tears, slightly affecting text (repaired with paper).
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 057.011.012.