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Jewish community fundraising report Charitable appeal of Rabbi Dr. Adolf Salvendi and other Rabbis, 1881, in German. - Jewish community fundraising report Charitable appeal of Rabbi Dr. Adolf Salvendi and other Rabbis, 1881, in German. Size: 23 x 17.5 cm. (9 x 6.8 inches), 2 pages, laid to leaf of paper to both sides. Condition: light brown paper, damping stain, fragile paper, missing places to top This is a late 19th-century Jewish community fundraising report and appeal showing solidarity among German Jewry with widows, orphans, poor rabbis, Torah scholars, and institutions in Europe and the Holy Land. The document is a charitable appeal (Aufruf) issued in December 1881 (23 Kislev 5642) by Dr. Adolf Salvendi (District Rabbi, Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate) together with other prominent rabbis such as Dr. Marcus Horovitz (Frankfurt a. M.) and Dr. J. Hildesheimer (Berlin Seminary Director) It records and promotes donations collected in German Jewish communities for: Support of widows and orphans (e.g., the widow Katz in Nieder-Weidbach, the widow Bergmann in Wertheim, a poor widow with seven children in Heidelberg, the six Schindler orphans in Vienna). Aid for Jewish educational institutions, including the Hebrew Educational Institute in Breslau, and religious schools in Jerusalem(e.g., Beth-Hammidrasch Doresh Zion / Blumenthal School). Assistance for kolelim (Jewish communal study groups) and poor Talmidei Chachamim (Torah scholars) in the Holy Land. Annual membership contributions, legacies, and donations to Jerusalem-based brotherhoods such as Succath-Schalom and Meor-Yaacov. The document lists numerous individual donors and amounts contributed from towns such as Deidesheim, Pappenheim, Heidelberg, Buchsweiler, Bischheim, Kaiserslautern, Stettin, Regensburg, and many others. Donations range from a few marks up to larger sums (25 marks or more, sometimes in florins). The tone emphasizes gratitude toward the “noble collectors and donors” and appeals for further support for charitable, religious, and educational causes in Germany, Austria, and particularly in Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Adolf Salvendi (born January 18, 1837 in Waag-Neustadl; died December 23, 1914 in Karlsruhe) was a German rabbi. Book stamp of Adolf Salvendi Adolf Salvendi received his initial education in his hometown from the local rabbi, Josef Weisse. Beginning on November 8, 1858, he studied for eight semesters at the University of Breslau. On November 2, 1862, he received his doctorate from the University of Jena with his dissertation ”Joseph Kimchi, Sketched from His Works” (unpublished). He initially briefly became rabbi in the West Prussian town of Berent in 1864 and then accepted a position in the Bavarian Palatinate. From 1866 to January 1, 1909, he served as district rabbi of the Dürkheim-Frankenthal district rabbinate, based in Dürkheim. He was a strict representative of Orthodox Judaism, which led to problems with the representatives of Liberal Judaism in many congregations of his district rabbinate. He was active in the Lemaan Zion association, a Zionist organization for Germany, and in the Association for the Education of Jewish Orphans in Palestine, both based in Frankfurt am Main. When his admirers donated a sum for a Palestine foundation on his 70th birthday, he stipulated that this foundation should be used to build a new orphanage in the Salvendi Colony. His first wife was Augusta Meyer (1842–1870), his second Charlotte-Schönche (1846–1910). His grave and that of his second wife are in the Jewish cemetery in Karlsruhe. His son Hugo Salvendi (born February 20, 1877 in Dürkheim) was a physician and was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.[1]