Letter to Rabbi Shmuel Salant, with handwritten signature of ten “elders of the congregation”, of the Kollel of “Österreich Chassidism”, requesting to receive the funds directly from London, instead of transferring them through an appointee of the Kollel “who will avenge us and do with us as he pleases as known throughout all gates of Zion”. Jerusalem, Kislev 1854.
Signed by ten rabbis, including: Rabbi Shmarya Shmeril Av Beit Din of Harimlov, Rabbi Yisrael of Hungary, the Holy Avraham Zvi [of Bitatsch?]; Rabbi Yehudah Segal; Rabbi Binyamin HaCohen; Rabbi David son of deceased leader and mentor Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua---“ and Rabbi Avigdor Zvi Enda.
The genius Rabbi Shmarya Shmeril Brandris (1780-1857), rabbi of Harimlov, disciple of Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margaliot and Rebbe Rabbi Avraham Dovid of Buchach. Author of Iyun Tefillah and Kehilot Yaakov. Immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1852, and settled in Jerusalem. Signed the 1856 ban against institutions of the Haskalah movement. (For additional information related to him see Encyclopedia of Scholars of Galicia, I pp. 618-619).
21.5 cm. Bluish stationery paper, good condition, folding marks and stains.