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LOT 50:
MOVING APPEAL TO SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE DESCRIBING THE TERRIBLE FOOD SHORTAGES AND INFLATION SUFFERED BY THE ...
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MOVING APPEAL TO SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE DESCRIBING THE TERRIBLE FOOD SHORTAGES AND INFLATION SUFFERED BY THE YERUSHALAYIM COMMUNITY IN 1870, SIGNED BY LEADING RABBIS AND COMMUNAL LEADERS.
Letter dated 1870 containing a moving description of the food shortages, poverty and inflation suffered by the Yerushalayim community.
The letter is signed by the rabbis and communal leaders of Yerushalayim’s Sefardim, Morrocans, Ashkenazim and Perushim.
The Sefardy signatories are:
Rabbi Avraham Ashkenazi – Rishon Letzion, Rabbi Moshe Benvenisti (stamp), Rabbi Refael Meir Fanizel – Rishon Letzion (stamp)..
The Ashkenazi signatories are:
Rabbi Avraham Eisenstein of Drohotshin, Rabbi Ze’ev HaCohen of Pinsk, Rabbi Meir Kameikin of Anikst, Rabbi Meir Luntziner of Minsk, Rabbi Yaakov Yehuda Lowy, Rabbi Isaac Yafeh of Druye and the famous printer and activist R. Nissan Bak.
Rabbi Avraham Ashkenazi (1811-1880), Dayan and Av Beis Din of the Sefardi community in Yerushalayim, who succeeded Rabbi Chaim David Chazan as Chief Rabbi and Rishon Letzion.
Rabbi Avraham Eisenstein of Drohotshin (1800-1886), son-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Cohen Av Beth Din of Pinsk, and travelled with him to Tzefas among other disciples of the Vilna Gaon. Dayan in Tzefas (1834) and lost his family in the earthquake of 1837, after-which he settled in Yerusholayim, where he headed the Vaad Hakelali.
Rabbi Meir Kameikin of Anikst (d. 1885), rabbinical emissary and leader of Kollel Vilna.
Rabbi Yaakov Yehuda Lowy (1813-1889), distinguished disciple of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman of Lipshitz – Chemdas Shlomo and brother of the famous Rabbi Nachum of Shadik. He served as Rosh Beth Din in Yerusholayim and headed Kollel Polin as well as the Vaad Hakelali. Author of Bayis L’Avos.
R. Nissan Bak, son of the famous printer R. Yisrael Bak. Representative of the Rebbes of Ruzhin and Sadagura in Eretz Yisrael, heading the construction of the Tiferes Yisrael Shul in Yerushalayim on their behalf. Leading Yerushalayim communal activist.
1 side. 22 x 27 cm. Very good condition.
