[Letter, 1769 January 12, Berlin to David Berlin].
[מכתב, ד' 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. -1771, addressee.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Shaʼul, 1717-1790--Trials, litigation, etc.

Shaʼul.

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 ; 222 x 188 (125 x 165) mm

Contained In:

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

Place of Publication:

Berlin, 4 Shevaṭ 5529 (11 January 1769)

בערלין, ד' שבט תקכ"ט.

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

This is a letter written to David Berlin, Wednesday evening, 4 Shevaṭ 5529 (11 January 1769) by Benjamin Veitel Ephraim to append to the previous letter (CAJS Rar Ms 559d) in which Saul Lowenstamm ruled that the plaintiff, "F.M. the important" (רפ"מ הרמה) was only owed an earlier balance from the estate of the writer's father-in-law; the writer asks of David Berlin to reissue the "rohre" document (a query already put forth in CAJS Rar Ms 559c) to assist his case against the plaintiff; Ephraim adds that the testimony of Martinius (mentioned in 559d) had no effect as he was able to produce documentation from David de Castro, a Hamburg acquaintance, who backed up his account disqualifying Martinius' grievance. Binyamin adds that the money is to be sent over with his uncle, "S. Fränkel" (likely Salomon Hirsch Benjamin Fränkel, 1716-1789). 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 559d).

Notes:

Ms. document.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in sixteen lines (letter text) with an additional line of greeting above letter text; date at upper left margin.

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 559j.

OCLC:

1322447025