Printed poster, Tochachat Megulah, letters of Jerusalem rabbis relating to the controversy surrounding the ban against schools in Jerusalem which adopted secular studies in their curriculum. [Jerusalem: printer not indicated, 1887].

The poster protests the treatment of R. Leib Chefetz, a leading Torah scholar in the city, and contains sharp criticism of Dr. Ze'ev Wilhelm Herzberg, R. Chaim Hirschensohn and others. R. Leib Chefetz had been sent by R. Yehoshua Leib (Maharil) Diskin to declare a ban against the schools, whereupon he was beaten by partisans of the schools and arrested by the authorities.

[1] leaf, approx. 25X38 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Wear. Creases and folding marks. Many tears around margins, including open tears, as well as small tears to folds at center of leaf, slightly affecting text. Pencil markings inside text.

Not documented by Sh. Halevy.
Provenance: Formerly of the collection of Dr. I. Mehlman, with his handwritten inscriptions on the reverse side of the poster.

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