Bidspirit auction | Large Collection of Letters and

Large Collection of Letters and Paper Items – Etz Chaim and Bikur Cholim Institutions in Jerusalem – 1900s-1960s - Large assorted collection of over a hundred letters, documents, booklets and various paper items relating to the Etz Chaim yeshiva in Jerusalem, and the joint fundraisers of the Etz Chaim Torah school and the Bikur Cholim hospital. Jerusalem, ca. 1900s-1960s. The collection includes: • Certificates to philanthropists, requests, official letters of thanks, lists of donors, receipts and payment orders, signed by administrators and treasurers of Etz Chaim and Bikur Cholim institutions in Jerusalem, including: R. Abba Yaakov Senderowitz, R. Yoel Moshe Salomon, R. Aryeh Leib Hershler (R. Leib Dayan), R. Yaakov Moshe Broida, R. Nachum Rogoznitzky, R. Yechiel Michel Tucazinsky, R. Zalman Zalaznik, R. Dov Ber Shapiro, R. Efraim Binyamin Hochstein, R. Elchanan Yehoshua Moshe Shlank, R. Natan Nata Kass, R. Asher Eliezer Löwy, R. Faitel Berman, R. Yehoshua Meir Reichman, R. Zalman HaLevi Soloveitchik and others. • Lengthy letter (approx. 6 handwritten pages) from administrators of Etz Chaim in Jerusalem, Cheshvan 1908, addressed to a tzedakah collector in Chicago – resolving disputes over an emissary's activities and settling collection of funds. • Tens of letters of rabbis, emissaries, donors and philanthropists from the United States and worldwide, addressed to treasurers and administrators of Etz Chaim institutions in Jerusalem, including letters of: R. Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Rif, Rabbi of Camden, New Jersey; R. Chaim David Bachrach, Rabbi of Providence, Rhode Island; emissary R. Yaakov Yehudah Reichman; R. Elchanan Tzvi Guterman, Rabbi of Scranton, Pennsylvania; and others. • Letter of R. Moshe Yitzchak Shuv of Brisk, emissary of Etz Chaim in America, to R. Yehoshua Meir Reichman, regarding funds and contributions. Pittsburgh, 1921. • Two lengthy letters handwritten and signed by R. Ze'ev Wolf Ragin, author of Minchat Ze'ev (son of R. Nachum Rogosnitzky), addressed to administrators of Etz Chaim in Jerusalem, regarding the institution and emissaries in the United States. New York, 1931. • Advertisement for donations to Pardes Etz Chaim, with printed letters of R. Sonnenfeld and R. Kook. • Two bilingual (Yiddish-English) posters for Pardes Etz Chaim, signed (in print) by R. Isser Zalman Meltzer, R. Yechiel Michel Tucazinsky, R. Shlomo Zalman Zalaznik, R. Zalman HaLevi Soloveitchik and R. Dov Vishnatzky. • Pardes Etz Chaim booklet. Jerusalem: Salomon, [ca. 1930s]. • Keren Torah UBinyan, Torah Building Fund, Etz Chaim. Jerusalem: Salomon, [ca. 1930]. Yiddish and English, with illustrations and photographs. Two copies. • And more. Approx. 115 paper items. Varying size and condition.