"On behalf of Jerusalem we will not be silent" - letter protesting the establishment of a "swimming pool with mixed swimming" in the holy city of Jerusalem, signed by seven leaders of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah in Jerusalem: R. "Dov Berish Weidenfeld", rabbi of Tchebin (Trzebinia); R. "Tzvi Pesach Frank", rabbi of Jerusalem; R. "Zalman Sorotzkin", rabbi of Lutsk; R. "Akiva Sofer", rabbi of Pressburg (Bratislava); R. "Eliezer Yehuda Finkel", Rosh Yeshivat Mir; R. "Yechezkel" Sarna, Rosh Yeshivat Chevron; R. "Ezra Attiya", Rosh Yeshivat Porat Yosef. Jerusalem, [ca. 1958].
Typewritten letter, with handwritten emendations. It is signed by seven rabbis and addressed to: "The government of Israel", "Jerusalem municipality and its administrators" and "Our Jewish brethren in Israel and the Diaspora". The letter is sharply worded: "The sanctity of Jerusalem… is in danger from those who wish to defile it by breaking all the barriers of modesty though the establishment of a swimming pool with mixed swimming - alas, how the faithful province has become defiled! This statement is painfully erupting from the heart of every Jew in whom the last sparks of Judaism have not been extinguished…".
[1] leaf. 28 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Torn filing holes.