Auction 88 - Part I - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Receipt Book of Keren HaTorah – Lithographed Signatures of the Chafetz Chaim, the Gerrer Rebbe and the Rebbe of Chortkov – Vienna, Tishrei 1924

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Receipt book of Keren HaTorah, with seven color lithograph receipts for 1-dollar donations, with the lithographed signatures of the Chafetz Chaim, Rebbe Yisrael of Chortkov and Rebbe Avraham Mordechai of Ger. Vienna, Tishrei 1924.
The book contains seven receipts attached to blank stubs. At the beginning of the book, there are two stubs inscribed with names of donors. The receipts are printed on both sides in color lithograph – with pictures and illustrations, a quote of the decision to fundraise reached at the Kraków conference in Elul 1924, and the lithographed signatures of Torah leaders of the generation. With printed wrappers in Hebrew, German and English.
Keren HaTorah was founded by the World Agudath Israel to help rebuild the yeshiva world following the ravages of WWI.
Notebook: approx. 29X12.5 cm. Printed wrappers, two paper stubs, and 7 receipts. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Wrappers in fair condition: stains and traces of past dampness. Wear and tears.


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