Large notebook, protocols and regulations – of meetings of 11 directors, heads and elderly of Kollel Ungarin, Jerusalem, 1903-1910.
In the beginning of the notebook, appear the regulations of "Kollel Shomrei HaChomot", with all their clauses, the Kollel is supposed to be managed by a committee of 11 people, including three appointed managers and eight elected members. "Order of election", "Right of voters" and "Right of Elected". "Duties of elected", "Arrangements" and "Laws". At the end of the regulations are copied signatures of the Kollel presidents, Gaon Rabbi Simcha Bonim Sofer Av Beit Din Pressburg and the Gaon Rabbi Elazar Loew Av Beit Din Ungarin and újhely, from Tamuz 1903.
Many protocols of the elected committee meetings. Requests, financial reports, reports concerning emissaries and decisions. Numerous signatures of "Kollel Authors" Rabbi Zadok Kreus and Rabbi Shmuel Binyamin Sonenfeld and signatures of the "Appointed Managers" Rabbi Yossef Binyamin Shimonovich and more. Most protocols are signed by the meetings' participants, among them: Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Weinberger, Rabbi Elazar David Hacohen, Rabbi Mendel Hacohen, Rabbi Haim Asher Zelig Zwebner, Rabbi Baruch Reuven Shlomo Halevi Yungreis, Rabbi Shmuel Zanwil Spitzer, Rabbi Yonatan Binyamin Estreicher, Rabbi Shalom Leib Eisenbach, Rabbi Yossef Moskovich, Rabbi Naftali Adler, Rabbi Yitzchak Shlomo Bloy, Rabbi Meir Zvi Hershler, Rabbi Avraham Aharon Halevi Prague, Rabbi Shlomo Aharon Wertheimer, and tens of other signatories.
In some meetings [mainly those regarding distribution of apartments] Rabbis, members of Beit Din also participated, and they signed the decisions. Several signatures of the Gaon Rabbi Yossef Haim Sonnenfeld and other rabbis. [Rabbi "Lipman David Bmahar"i" and Rabbi "Aryeh Leib Bahra"d Hershler, Rabbi Leib Dayan].
Important documents concerning the history of Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel appear in this notebook, as well as the arrangements of the Hungarian Congregation “Kollel Shomrei HaChomot”, which was the most organized congregation of all the “Kollels” in Jerusalem.
Elegant notebook, 37 cm, 288 pp, out of which 150 are written. Good condition. Original cloth binding.
+ Enclosed leaves: protocols and letter drafts (one letter is a request sent to the management committee in 1870, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yossef Leichtman).