Large and varied collection of letters and documents, including some bearing the signatures of rabbis and prominent members of the Safed community. Safed, Tiberias, Jerusalem and other places, ca. 1870s-1930s.
Letters on communal matters and signed contracts, familial letters and wills, various notes and more.
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49 paper items. Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.

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Large collection of letters and financial records pertaining to Eretz Israel funds, send to Safed from the courts of the Vizhnitz rebbes in Europe. Ca. 1880s and 1920s.
• Many letters and notes (28 leaves) handwritten and signed by R. Moshe Brumer, scribe and attendant of the Tzemach Tzadik, Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Vizhnitz. Vizhnitz, 1880-1888.
• Nine letters handwritten and signed by R. Mendel Walzer, attendant of Rebbe Chaim Hager of Otynia (son of R. Baruch of Vizhnitz). Stanislav, ca. 1920s.
The first rebbe of Vizhnitz – R. Menachem Mendel Hager, author of Tzemach Tzadik (1830 – Tishrei 1884), was very active in collecting and raising funds on behalf of the poor of Safed and Tiberias, and in distributing Eretz Israel funds. With time, he founded Kollel Vizhnitz, and appointed R. Moshe Charag (Zeiger), a prominent member of the Chassidic community in Safed, to lead it.
His grandson Rebbe Chaim Hager (1863-1932), son of the Imrei Baruch, was appointed rebbe in Otynia after his father's passing, and he succeeded the latter as Nesi Eretz Israel, heading the fundraising for Kollel Bukovina. After WWI, he settled in Stanislav, and the present letters are from that period.
Approx. 38 paper items. Size and condition vary.

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Large collection of notebooks, leaves and receipts. Safed, ca. 1916-1943.
Notebooks with lists of the members of Kollel Kosov, for the Chalukah of the Vienna monies (funds collected in Galicia and Bukovina by the courts of the rebbes of Kosov and Otynia-Vizhnitz, and sent via Vienna); the Montefiore monies (funds from the Montefiore and Mazkeret Moshe foundations) and Deyzh monies (funds collected in Siebenbürgen by the rebbes of Deyzh).
Close writing, mostly in the neat hand of R. Yosef Tzvi Geiger, treasurer and trustee of the Kollel. The lists in these notebooks provide much information on the Safed Jewish community in the period following WWI, when the Jewish settlement in the city had declined considerably.
Additional leaves (large and small) containing various notes between the bound leaves of the notebooks; several printed receipts.
Approx. 10 notebooks + dozens of notes, handwritten singles leaves and printed receipts, altogether hundreds of written leaves. Size varies. Overall good condition.

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Letter handwritten and signed by R. Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, chief rabbi of Eretz Israel, with the signatures of R. Abba Yaakov HaKohen Borochov and R. Isser Zalman Meltzer. Jerusalem, Sivan 1933.
The letter lists the ideas raised at a meeting convened to obtain sources of income for the Orthodox boys' schools in Jerusalem: to solicit donations from visitors at the Western Wall and Rachel's Tomb, and to require the Chevra Kaddisha to dedicate a third of their income to Orthodox education.
[1] leaf, official stationery of R. Kook. 27.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Folding marks. Tears to folds, slightly affecting text.

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Large collection of letters and protocols (some signed), documents and notes, concerning the establishment and management of the Keren LeHachzakat HaYeshivot in Eretz Israel, founded in the home of the chief rabbi, R. Avraham Yitchak HaKohen Kook. Ca. 1930s.
The collection includes:
• Two leaves handwritten by R. Kook – minutes of the founding meeting of the Vaad LeHachzakat HaYeshivot, with R. Yechiel Michel Tucazinsky (dean of the Etz Chaim yeshiva) and R. Yechezkel Sarna (dean of the Hebron yeshiva). [Jerusalem, ca. 1934].
• Minutes of the meeting of the Keren LeHachzakat Shloshet HaYeshivot HaGedolot, which took place in the home of R. Meir Berlin after the passing of R. Kook. Signed by R. Yechiel Michel Tucazinsky, R. Yaakov Moshe Charlap (dean of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva) and R. Yechezkel Sarna. Jerusalem, Tishrei 1935.
• Letter signed by the chief rabbis, R. Yaakov Meir and R. Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, regarding fundraising at the Western Wall for the boys' schools in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Elul 1933.
• Two letters: letter signed by R. Reuven Katz chief rabbi of Petach Tikva, R. Yechiel Michel Tucazinsky and R. Yechezkel Sarna, addressed to the chief rabbis of Tel Aviv; and response letter signed by R. Moshe Avigdor Amiel, R. Benzion Chai Uziel and R. Tzvi Pesach Frank. Adar 1936.
• Typewritten eulogy for the first anniversary of the passing of R. Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, emended and signed by the author of the eulogy, R. Yechiel Michel Tucazinsky. Jerusalem, Elul 1936
• Printed notice of the passing of R. Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, signed by the administration of the Etz Chaim boys' school and yeshiva. [Jerusalem, Elul 1935].
• Other typewritten and handwritten letters, documents, protocols and notes, related to the activities of this fund, and the management of the yeshivot and boys' schools in Jerusalem.
Approx. 40 items + envelopes and additional leaves. Size and condition vary.

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