Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Leaf with the Calculation of the Chaluka (Distribution) – Moses Montefiore – Jerusalem, 1881 – Important Signatures

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Calculation of the distribution of the "Eretz Yisrael Association in North America", of the money received "By Sir Moses Montefiore". Details of the amounts distributed next to the signatures of those who received the money from the Kollelim of the Prushim and the Chassidim. The leaf was signed by some of the Torah scholars and leaders of those times: Rabbi Ya'akov Yehuda Levy (signed twice), Rabbi Shneur Zalman Rivlin, Rabbi Eliezer Dan Ralbag, Rabbi Mendel Monshtar, and others.
On the reverse side of the leaf are more inscriptions of income from donations.
Leaf, 35 cm. Fair condition. Wear and tear to margins. Stains.
Letters to Rabbi Shmuel Salant / The Old Yishuv in Jerusalem and Hebron
Letters to Rabbi Shmuel Salant / The Old Yishuv in Jerusalem and Hebron