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Manuscript: “Notebook of Kollel Shomrei HaChomot, Beit HaSofer VeHaMeir Providing for the communities of ...
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Manuscript: “Notebook of Kollel Shomrei HaChomot, Beit HaSofer VeHaMeir Providing for the communities of Czechoslovakia, East Hungary , America, New Romania, and Yugoslavia.” Jerusalem, 1923.
An artistic and unique notebook of a prestigious 20th Century Jewish institution of Jerusalem. The notebook was intended to accompany Shadarim (Rabbinical emissaries) on their journey to the United States to raise funds for the Jerusalemite Kollel for Czechoslovakian expats. The notebook contains eloquent requests in Hebrew and English for various Charitable causes. This notebook includes the American embassy in Jerusalem’s verification that these signatures are authentic.
Signatures of Rabbis and Community figures appear on the notebook including: Rabbi Yechiel David Deutsch, son of Rabbi Shimshon Deutsch, founder of Kollel Shomrei HaChomot and the Jerusalem Tzaddik, Rabbi Michoel Herman.
The notebook includes guarantees to donors such as:
Any man or woman who donates the amount of ten dollars, and advises us of his name and the name of his parents, will have his name listed posthumously on our Synagogue, Nechamat Tzion’s list of the deceased. His name will be intoned on his Yahrtzeit, as well at Yizkor on holidays.
The notebook does not in fact list any actual donations. We deduce from this that the notebook never actually left the holy land, which would explain this item’s good condition.
On an additional colorful title page appears the words:
“Book of Keren Kayemet and house building, houses of kindness and good institutions.”
[1] 98 pages. 31 cm. Hebrew and English. Squared, Ashkenai letters, in a number of shades of color.
