Bidspirit auction | EXPULSION OF JEWS FROM PRAGUE

EXPULSION OF JEWS FROM PRAGUE IN 1745 - APPEAL ISSUED BY PRAGUE RABBIS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS TO THE VENICE COMMUNITY. This important historic document describes the suffering of the Prague Jewish community during and after the Prussian seizure of the city, and the subsequent attacks and expulsion of the Jews under the Austro-Hungarian Empress Maria Theresa. Venice, 1745. Signatures of Prague community leaders: R. Avraham Dushnis Levy Horowitz, R. Mishel b. R. Leib Jeiteles Rokach, R. Avraham Pressburg, R. Binyamin Wolf Segal and R. Yitzchak Bondi. Signatures of rabbis: Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Shapira, Rabbi of Bohemia, Rabbi Simcha HaCohen Rapaport, Rabbi Avraham Fassilberg, Rabbi Menachem Mendel b. Rabbi Yonah and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Karov. Countersigned by Venice community leaders: R. Yaakov Hai b. Yehoshua Baruch Levy, R. Yitzchak b. Gad Foah, R. Yaakov b. Refael b. Yakar, R. Yitzchak b. David Uziel and R. Moshe b. Refael Hai Merari. Several lines added in Italian handwriting. 2 sides. 21 x 30 cm. Good condition.