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LeHaramat Keren Yerushalayim VeToshaveha – Report on the Halukka Institution – Jerusalem, 1875

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LeHaramat Keren Yerushalayim VeToshaveha, including a report on the Halukka system, on the authority of the emissaries Shmuel Montagu and R. Dr. Asher, after returning from Jerusalem in 1875, edited by Yisrael Dov Frumkin. Jerusalem: Yisrael Dov Frumkin, [1875].


The present report was delivered to the committee of the Montefiore Memorial Fund, opposing the Halukka system in place at the time (previously printed that year in Frumkin's newspaper HaChavatzelet).


[1] leaf, 50, 53-63 pages. 15 cm. Dry paper. Good condition. Few stains. Small tear on title page, repaired with tape to verso. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 242.

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Early Books Printed in Jerusalem – Books and Booklets, Proclamations and Signed Letters
Early Books Printed in Jerusalem – Books and Booklets, Proclamations and Signed Letters