Printed booklet, Kol Yerushalayim, anthology of rabbis' letters, prohibiting and proclaiming a cherem on new schools which teach secular subjects. Jerusalem: [Yoel Moshe Salomon]. 1887.

The booklet begins with harsh criticism of the "schools" which introduce the study of secular subjects and foreign languages, bearing the printed signatures of many Jerusalem rabbis.
The booklet includes a printed copy of the rabbis' letter from 1857, against the Lemel school, one of the first schools in Jerusalem which incorporated secular subjects, bearing the signatures of R. Shmuel Salant and R. Yosef Zundel of Salant, and many more rabbis; a letter from 1862 signed by R. Moshe Yehuda Leib Silberberg of Kutno (author of Zayit Raanan) and by R. Nachum of Shadik (Szadek), and another letter by R. Meir Auerbach rabbi of Kalisz (Kalisch) and Jerusalem, author of Imrei Bina.
Apparently, the booklet was printed by R. Yaakov Yehuda Leib Levi, head of the Jerusalem Beit Din, younger brother of R. Nachum of Shadik. His name and address appear at the end of the booklet.
"Schools" was the name commonly used for the new schools, which taught secular subjects such as history, science and foreign languages.

Double leaf ([4] printed pages). Approx. 34 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Wear. Folding marks and creases. Many tears, including open tears (including a tear in the center of a leaf), affecting text, restored with adhesive tape. Unbound.
Sh. Halevy, no. 601.

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