Auction 9 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Ya'akov Yisrael De-Haan – Letter to Colonel Kish, 1923
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Ya'akov Yisrael De-Haan, handwritten letter to Colonel Kish. Jerusalem, May 28,1923.
Reply letter to Colonel Kish, to his letter of the previous day. Written by De-Haan as councellor and secretary of Rabbi Chaim Sonnenfeld. This letter was sent three weeks prior to the famous meeting between a Charedi delegation (that included De-Haan) and Emir Abd-Allah, as a reaction to a meeting between a Zionist delegation headed by Colonel Kish with the people of the Hashemite dynasty.
De-Haan's delegation handed a memorandum opposing the Zionists and proposing a Charedi-Arab alliance. One year later, on 30.6.1924 Ya'akov De-Haan was assassinated by the Haganah people and this event was the first political assassination in the Zionist history.
2 pages, 25.5 cm. Good condition. Filing-holes and creases.
Reply letter to Colonel Kish, to his letter of the previous day. Written by De-Haan as councellor and secretary of Rabbi Chaim Sonnenfeld. This letter was sent three weeks prior to the famous meeting between a Charedi delegation (that included De-Haan) and Emir Abd-Allah, as a reaction to a meeting between a Zionist delegation headed by Colonel Kish with the people of the Hashemite dynasty.
De-Haan's delegation handed a memorandum opposing the Zionists and proposing a Charedi-Arab alliance. One year later, on 30.6.1924 Ya'akov De-Haan was assassinated by the Haganah people and this event was the first political assassination in the Zionist history.
2 pages, 25.5 cm. Good condition. Filing-holes and creases.
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