Samuel Salant letter to Samuel Mohilewer.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Salant, Samuel, 1816-1909, author, correspondent.

Contributor:

Mohilewer, Samuel, 1824-1898, correspondent.

מוהליבר, שמואל, 1824־1898.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Rabbis--Jerusalem--19th century--Correspondence.

Rabbis.

Halukkah--19th century.

Halukkah.

Fund raising--Poland--Białystok--19th century.

Fund raising.

Genre:

correspondence artifacts.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Kestenbaum & Company, Auction 80 (March 28, 2019) lot 141.

Physical Description:

1 item (3 pieces) : paper ; 24 x 30 cm.

Production:

[Jerusalem], 18 Adar [5]645 [5 March 1885].

[ירושלים], ח"י אדר תרמ"ה.

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Biography/History:

Chief rabbi of the Ashkenazim in the Old City of Jerusalem (1841-1909), who also traveled to Europe to secure contributions for the Halukkah (to Lithunia and Poland, 1848-1851; to Germany, Netherlands, and England, 1860).

Summary:

Letter dated 18 Adar 5645 (Thursday, Marc 5, 1885), written to Samuel Mohilewer, rabbi of Białystok and founder of the Hovevei Zion movement. The upper right portion of the letter is missing, and the lower left is wiped away due to water damage; mention is made of misuse or usurpation of funds (השגת גבול), disparaging comments, likely political, aimed at members of the Old Yishuv (Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine) in print and correspondence, receipts of pledges and sums, and dispensation of funds between the Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities in the Old Yishuv. Letter survives in 20 lines; autograph following letter (washed but legible).

Cited as:

Samuel Salant letter to Samuel Mohilewer. (CAJS Misc Mss Collection, ARC Ms. 000.220.1). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1409337280