Lot 243
Letter Signed by Moses Montefiore – Distribution of Funds to Kollelim – London, 1873
Letter by Moses Montefiore to the rabbis of Jerusalem, the Chacham Bashi Rabbi Avraham Ashkenazi, Rabbi Meir ben Asher of Aniksht and Rabbi Ya'akov Yehuda Leib Levi. Written by a secretary, on official stationery, and hand-signed by Montefiore in Hebrew in square letters. London, England, 1873.
The letter deals with a donation Montefiore had received from Rabbi David Zvi Ashkenazi from the city of Königsberg, "With a request to give you this donation to be distributed among the Kollelot, on behalf of the community of Poland and the philanthropist Reb Avraham the son of Reb Gershon …" (Hebrew).
[1] leaf, 24.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Some stains.
