[Letter, 1769 January 10, Berlin to David Berlin].
[מכתב, ב' שבט תקכ"ט, בערלין אל דוד בערלין].

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ephraim, Benjamin Veitel, 1742-1811.

Contributor:

Berlin, David ben Loeb, -1771, addressee.

Lamm, Louis, 1871-1943, former owner.

בערלין, דוד בן ליב.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Lowenstamm, Saul, 1717-1790--Trials, litigation, etc.

Lowenstamm, Saul.

Jews--Germany--Berlin--18th century--Correspondence.

Jews.

Rabbis--Germany--Hamburg--18th century--Correspondence.

Rabbis.

Jews--Germany--Berlin--18th century--History--Sources.

Jews--Germany--Hamburg--18th century--History--Sources.

History.

Germany--Hamburg.

Germany--Berlin.

Shaʼul, 1717-1790.

Genre:

Manuscripts, European.

Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 18th century.

legal correspondence

correspondence artifacts

Sources.

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 121 (May 5, 2020) lot 423 as part of the archive of David ben Loeb Berlin (-1771).

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 112 x 192 (88 x 170) mm

Contained In:

Berlin, David ben Loeb, -1771. David ben Loeb Berlin correspondence.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, 2 Shevaṭ 5529 (10 January 1769)

בערלין, ב' שבט תקכ"ט.

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

This is a letter written to David Berlin, Tuesday 2 Shevaṭ 5529 (10 January 1769) by Benjamin Veitel Ephraim, expressing his satisfaction over the apparent change in fortune that the plaintiff in his case, 'F.M. the important', (רפ"מ הרמה) accepted the written directive from David Berlin to the plaintiff of endorsement of the author's proof of payment in the case presided over by Saul Lowenstamm in Amsterdam (see CAJS Rar Ms 559c); additionally, a new detail arose in the suit; a former Amsterdam associate of Ephraim named Martinius, who had recently testified against the author in Amsterdam, had an earlier grievance which occurred in Hamburg over Martinius' refusal to lend him 1500 Courant Heller for a flash investment (which seems to have caused an end to their business relationship). This suit is likely related to the episode of transfer of the silver factory of Benjamin Veitel Ephraim's father-in-law, Levin Moses Phillip of Amsterdam (also a cousin to Ephraim's father, Veitel Heine Ephraim) following his death; Ephraim's other documents written to David Berlin are 559c and 559j).

Notes:

Ms. document.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in eight lines (letter text) with an additional line of greeting above letter text; signature below final line.

Script: Written in a Ashkenazic cursive script, possibly in the hand of Benjamin Veitel Ephraim (otherwise, dictated, and written in a secretarial hand).

Decoration: Flourish preceding greeting.

Origin: Written in Berlin, then capital of Prussia (today Germany).

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 559d.

OCLC:

1322256478