Huge historic archive, comprising hundreds of letters, thousands of handwritten leaves, and dozens of printed leaves and booklets. Jerusalem and Eretz Israel, ca. 1880s-1940s.
Archive of R. Moshe HaMeiri-Ostrovsky, one of the rabbis and leaders of the Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel in the first half of the 20th century. The archive also includes letters, printed leaves, certificates and important documents from the estate of his father-in-law, R. Gedaliah Nachman Broder, a community leader in Jerusalem, head of the Vaad HaKlali and trusty of Kollel Horodna.
Also found in the archive are hundreds of papers and drafts of books and essays by R. Ostrovsky, and newspaper clippings of articles by R. Ostrovsky.
The archive comprises over 100 letters from rabbis of Eretz Israel, including R. Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, R. Naftali Hertz HaLevi, R. Tzvi Pesach Frank, R. Moshe Nachum Wallenstein, R. Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Herzog, and many others. There are also many letters from various public figures, such as Yitzchak Ben Tzvi, R. Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan), R. Yehuda Leib Fishman-Maimon, R. Yitzchak Meir Levin, and others.
R. Moshe HaMeiri-Ostrovsky (1886-1947), a rabbi and leader of the Yishuv in Eretz Israel. He served as rabbi of the Mazkeret Batya (Ekron) settlement in 1912-1919 (see previous item), later moving to Petach Tikva. He was one of the leaders of the Mizrachi movement, and a founder of the chief rabbinate in Eretz Israel. He helped establish the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Hundreds of paper items (thousands of leaves): letters, notebooks and essays. Size and condition vary.

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