Various notebooks and papers, signed documents, accounting notes, memoirs from Yemen and issues relating to the Yemenite community in Jerusalem. Handwritten by Rabbi Shalom Yosef Alshich, with many signatures of Rabbi Shalom Yosef Alshich and his brother Rabbi Avraham Yosef Alshich, as well as additional signatures. Jerusalem, 1919-1929. The notes contain much information about the Yemenite community in Jerusalem during World War I: Purchasing property and public buildings in the Nachalat Zvi neighborhood, dedications of Yemen and Aleppo Jews as well as Rabbi Alshich's private family matters. Rabbi Shalom ben Yosef HaLevi Alshich (1859-1944), a prominent Kabbalist and Ra'avad of the Yemenite community of Jerusalem, born in Sa'ana in Yemen, disciple of Rabbi Chaim Korach and Rabbi Yichye Badichi. Already in 1886, his signature appears together with the signatures of the "Sages of the General Yeshiva" in Sana'a on halachic rulings. In 1891, he immigrated to Eretz Israel, and fortified the Yemenite institutes in Jerusalem. He signed rulings and various regulations. After World War I, he was appointed Ra'avad and Chief Rabbi of the Yemenite community. He taught at the Kabbalist yeshivot Beit El and Rechovot HaNahar and also wrote commentaries on Yemenite piyyutim. He himself composed many piyyutim expressing the Jewish longing to dwell in Eretz Israel. Author of Doresh Shalom. His brother, Rabbi Avraham ben Yosef HaLevi Alshich, was one of the first Yemenites who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881 before the first Aliya in 1882, died after 1913. Large notebook in long narrow format + small notebook + many papers. size and condition vary.