Letter handwritten and signed by Yosef Chaim Brenner, addressed to the Palestine Restoration Fund (Keren HaGeulah) committee in Jaffa. August 1920.
The letter deals with the sixth issue of the literary anthology "Revivim", edited and published by Brenner in Jaffa in 1919. Brenner writes: "I have two hundred and thirty copies of the issue, the remainder of the entire edition, which numbered nine hundred and forty copies, and I think that the Shtibel publishing house […] or another bookstore, abroad or in the country, will willingly buy this remainder, since in a year or two this issue will become scarce, like the ones that preceded it. I ask to inform me where to deliver the aforementioned 230 copies, which are the property of Keren HaGeulah".
The literary anthology "Revivim" was published during the years 1908-1919. Issues 1-2 were published in Lviv (Galicia) in 1908, before Brenner's immigration to Palestine, and issues 3-5 were published in Jerusalem and Jaffa in 1913-1914, after Brenner's immigration to Palestine in 1909. Issue 6 – the subject of this letter - was published in Jaffa in February 1919.
The Palestine Restoration Fund (Keren HaGeulah), established in July 1919, collected funds for the World Zionist Organization (funding immigration and buying lands in Palestine) before the establishment of "Keren Hayesod".
The letter was published in Vol. III of The Collected Writings of Yosef Chaim Brenner (Hebrew), [Tel-Aviv]: HaKibbutz Hameuchad, 1967; letter 774.
[1] folded leaf (one written page), 22 cm. Good condition. Creases and fold lines. Pinholes and small tears to edges and fold lines (not affecting the text). Stains.