[Broadside circulated informing donors and overseers of the mandatory Safed portion of Halukkah monies].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Avraham Mosheh Hillel, active 19th century, author.

Mosheh Hayyim Shelomoh David, active 19th century, author.

Yehezkel Mosheh, Ha-levi, active 19th century, author.

ʻEzrah Hayyim, Ha-kohen, active 19th century, author.

Joseph Ḥayyim ben Elijah al-Ḥakam, approximately 1834-1909, author.

Contributor:

Alshekh, Moses, active 16th century, associated name.

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Miscellaneous Print Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews--Iraq--Baghdad--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Kurdistan--19th century.

Jews--Iran--19th century.

Charities--Israel--Tsefat--19th century.

Charities.

Charity laws and legislation (Jewish law).

Halukkah.

Printed ephemera.

Genre:

handbills.

circulars (fliers)

Physical Description:

1 leaf ; 23 x 12 cm

Other Title:

text beings: Zikhron ʻedut : Li-hiyot ki me-shanim ḳadmoniyot ḳabalah hi me-avotenu ... le-ḳabets kesef ha-sheḳalim ule-halḳam ... veha-ʻiḳarit hi ʻi.ha-ḳ. Tsefat ...

זכרון עדות : להיות כי משנים קדמוניות קבלה היא מאבותנו ... לקבץ כסף השקלים ולחלקם ... והעיקרית היא עיה"ק צפת...

Place of Publication:

Bavel [Baghdad, Iraq]: [publisher not identified], Av 5559 [July 1899]

Language Note:

Text in Hebrew.

Summary:

Printed circular with the texts of letters written by Baghdad rabbis addressing donors in the Jewish communities of Iran and Kurdistan on the mandatory allottment of the Halukkah monies collected there be for Tsefat [Safed, Israel] charities, the tradition set by Moses Alshekh [in the 16th century in Safed].

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Text of first letter undersigned by Avraham Mosheh Hillel, Mosheh Hayyim Shelomoh David, and Yehezkel Mosheh Ha-levi; additional letters undersigned by Joseph Hayyim and Eliyahu ben Mosheh Hayyim of Baghdad, and overseer ʻEzrah Hayyim Ha-kohen.

Local Notes:

Kislak Misc Print Collection oversize box 6 no 21: Purchased from Kestenbaum & Co., Auction 51 lot 206 (Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund).

OCLC:

1543152839