[Woodblock gilt Rosh ha-Shanah greeting, sent by Rabbi Wolf Heller, Safed].
[ברכת ראש השנה, מהרב זאב וואלף העליר, צפת].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Abraham J. and Deborah Karp Collection of Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Karp, Abraham J., former owner.

Heller, Wolf, inscriber.

העליר, זאב וואלף.

Language:

German

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

New Year cards--Israel--Tsefat--19th century.

New Year cards.

Rabbis--Israel--Tsefat--19th century.

Rabbis.

Genre:

Greeting cards.

stamps (marks)

parcel gilding.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Karp.

Physical Description:

1 leaf ; 12 x 19 cm

Production:

[Jerusalem] : [printer not identified], 5648 [1888]

Other Title:

caption : Le-shanah yi-khetov ṿe-yaḥtom bi-sefer ha-tsadiḳim = Glück und Segen zum Neuen Jahr = kol ha-katuv le-ḥayim bi-Yerushalayim

לשנה טובה יכתב ויחתם בספר הצדיקים... כל הכתוב לחיים בירושלים

Language Note:

Hebrew and German.

Summary:

Gilt-engraved and stamped Rosh ha-Shanah card, with device designed as a decorative factotum, in a vine and grape-cluster motif, around the words כל הכתוב לחיים בירושלים (from Isaiah IV:3); understamped "Wolf Heller, Rabbiner, SAFFED Palästina, bl. Landes"; Heller was the nephew of Shmuel Heller, Chief Rabbi of Safed (Tsefat; 1809-1887), and was a brother in law of Moses Moinester, rabbi in Jerusalem and later in Brownsville, New York.

OCLC:

1500474370