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Degel Torah Society – Booklet of Regulations Signed by the Society's Heads – Jerusalem, 1891 – Bibliographically Unknown

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Booklet of regulations and guidelines of the Degel HaTorah Society in Jerusalem, signed by the society's heads. Jerusalem: Yoel Moshe Salomon, [1891?].


Listed on the title page are the objectives of the society, its activities from the time it was established until this printing and regulations of its yeshivas and schools.
The first pages contain a historical review of the reasons leading to the founding of the society, and the final pages bear the signatures of the heads of the society: Mendel Wolpert, Chaim Yeshaya Hirschsohn, Michel Avraham Hirschsohn and Yehoshua Meir Reichman, and the society's stamp, dated "Rosh Chodesh Adar Sheni Bo [1891]".
Page 7 poses the objective of the society: to raise the banner of the Torah (in Hebrew: "Degel HaTorah") in the holy land and continues to list in brief, procedures for conducting the society, its income, the curriculum of the schools and yeshivas and regulations of benefits for the students.


8 pages. Possibly, the booklet was originally printed with an additional page. 14 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor tears and blemishes to title page. A dark strip of paper was glued to the inner margins of the title page. New binding.
Bibliographically unknown.
Sh. Halevy listed a booklet with a similar name which was printed in 1876 as no. 284, however the present booklet differs from the one listed by her.

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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