Beschreibung:

Large and varied collection of letters and documents, from Jerusalem, ca. 1850-1910. · Letters (unsigned) and handwritten memorandums, send by public institutes in Jerusalem and by the Va'ad HaKlali, Rabbi Shmuel Salant and his son, Rabbi Binyamin Beinush Salant, on various issues: A letter to US Jews about the Kollel fundraising campaign. Jerusalem, 1881; regulations against the Protestant Mission and Greek hospitals; letters and articles about etrogim grown in Eretz Israel and countering objections written in newspapers; letters to Baron Rothschild against force applied by his officials in regard to education and fulfillment of Torah and its mitzvoth; drafts of shtarot (bills) and documents concerning land and houses; drafts of halachic rulings on various matters, testaments and partnerships; draft of a bill regarding the debts of Rabbi Yisrael the Printer (Rabbi Yisrael Bak) and his partners, to Sheikh Mustafa al Bashiti. Tevet 1850. · Many letters written to Rabbi Shmuel Salant: Letters by donors and emissaries throughout the world; letter from the Misgav LaDach Hospital concerning the refusal to appoint Dr. A. Cohen as a physician in the hospital. [The well-known move of Rabbi Michel HaCohen in 1894, leaving the position of secretary of the Ashkenazi institutes to manage the Sephardi institutes and establish the Misgav LaDach Hospital, due the refusal of the Bikur Cholim Hospital to appoint his son, Dr. A. Cohen, as a physician in the hospital. This letter is an addendum to this painful affair]. · Receipts, business letters and printed matter, in Hebrew and German, from ca. 1900-1920. 63 items, size and condition vary. Some of the documents in the collection originated in the archive of Rabbi Shmuel Salant. Rabbi Shmuel Salant's letters were usually written by his team of scribes and secretaries to which he would add his signature or stamp. Evidently, some of the letters (unsigned) of the collection originated in this archive.