Kudrynce Jewish Community letter to David Sassoon, 15 August 1896.
מכתב מהקהילה היהודי בקירדיניץ אל אלבערט דוד ששון

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Israelitische Cultusverwaltung zu Kudrynce, issuing body.

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Sassoon, Albert Abdullah David, Sir, 1818-1896, addressee.

Soffer, S., rabbi (Kudryntsi, Ukraine), signer.

Richter, Wolf, (Kudryntsi, Ukraine), signer.

סופר, ישעיה, רב (קודרינצי, אוקריינה).

Language:

German

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Eastern.

Jews.

Cholera--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Cholera.

Jews--India--Mumbai--19th century--History--Sources.

Ternopilʹsʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine)--19th century--History--Sources.

Ternopilʹsʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine).

Genre:

stationery

autographs (manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Refaeli Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 21 (March 14, 2020) lot 280.

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 282 x 216 (190 x 200) mm.

Place of Publication:

15 August 1896.

ב' ואתחנן תרנ"ו.

Language Note:

In Hebrew; date and signatures in German.

Summary:

This is a manuscript letter from the Israelitische Cultusverwaltung zu Kudrynce (then in eastern Galicia, today Kudryntsi in southern Ukraine, approximately 50 miles north of the border of the Ukranian-Romanian border), addressed to David Sassoon (Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1818-1896) in Bombay (Mumbai, India), requesting a donation to help the impoverished and the widows and orphans following an outbreak of cholera (during the fifth cholera pandemic (1881-1896), Russia and Eastern Europe lost 200,000 between 1893-4). The community leaders in Kudryntsi had sent another letter earlier (which seems to have gone unanswered) and added this letter in a more frantic tone. Letter verso adds a paragraph seeking another donation from Sassoon for a synagogue. Letter in 15 long lines (three lines of introduction), with signatures of the rabbi and president below; letter postscript in seven lines (verso). Written in a Sephardic semicursive script; דוד ששון in a square script (initials built in with pen crosshatching).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

OCLC:

1336505429