Auction 33 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Manuscript, Early Notebook of Etz Chaim Yeshiva – Jerusalem 1874 Manuscript, “notebook of Etz Chaim Yeshiva and elementary school established in 1857 upon ruins of Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid”. Jerusalem, [1874].

Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $3,125
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Illustrated title page. Beginning of notebook contains list of regulations “as we recollect from that which was written in first notepad… which was lost…”.
Notations between approximately 1874-1886. Various resolutions and notations concerning donations and management of funds, details of donors and their families, death anniversary dates, names and details of assistants in Eastern and Western Europe, addresses and details pertaining to philanthropists. Several signatures of managers.
Several leaves and letters between leaves of notebook, including: handwritten pamphlet letter for donors [from 1907], colorful illustrated title page, signatures of rabbis and managers of Etz Chaim as well as stamps of Rabbi Shmuel Salant, at end.
More than 100 written pages. 23 cm. Good condition, stains, wear and tear. Worn binding.
Notebooks of this kind, from these years, are not common [the known notebooks are from 1899-1929]
Emissary Letters and Notebooks \ the Old Yishuv in Eretz Israel
Emissary Letters and Notebooks \ the Old Yishuv in Eretz Israel