Printed leaf, "letter of request", by R. Akiva Yosef Schlesinger, author of Lev HaIvri. Jerusalem, [1887].

Request for donations for an unidentified urgent public affair. He stresses the importance of the donations, but does not identify what the donations are intended for, apart from dropping enigmatic hints.

R. Akiva Yosef Schlesinger (1837-1922), author of Lev HaIvri, son-in-law of R. Hillel Lichtenstein, Rabbi of Kolomyia, disciple of the great Hungarian rabbis and a zealous opponent of the Reform and Haskalah movements. In 1870 he immigrated to Jerusalem, where he continued his struggle against the "innovators". He was embroiled in a number of controversies, including with the Old Yishuv when he contested the Halukka system. He was a founder of Petach Tikva and was involved in other pioneering settlements.

[1] leaf. 26 cm. Good-fair condition. Light stains. Wear and tears (repaired with tape to verso). Folding marks and folds. Inscriptions in pencil.

Bibliographically unknown. Not recorded in Sh. Halevy or the NLI catalogue.