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Exceptionally Rare – Not in the National Library: Collection of [7] Booklets of Shemesh Tzedakah, Published by the Va’ad HaKlal in Jerusalem - Collection of [7] printed booklets – Shemesh Tzedakah – reports of the activities of the Va’ad HaKlal, the central charitable institution whose crucial support sustained the life of the Old Yishuv in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Solomon Press, 1898–1920. All seven booklets are absent from the National Library of Israel! Due to their rarity, five of the present booklets are also unrecorded in the Bibliographic Project. Between the lines are interwoven fascinating historical episodes, such as the expenses of bringing R. Abraham Isaac Kook from London to Eretz Israel, publications issued for the youth of the Old Yishuv concerning Ottoman military laws, the sending of prayer books and High Holiday machzorim to the Jewish Legion, and other remarkable reports from Jerusalem. Contents: Booklet XVIII: 1897–1898. Booklets XXIV–XXV: 1903–1904. Booklets XXVI–XXVII: 1905–1907. Booklets XXVIII–XXIX: 1907–1909. Booklets XXXII–XXXIV: 1911–1913. Booklets XXXIV–XXXV: 1913–1915. Booklets XXXVI–XL: 1915–1919. Total of [7] booklets, without binding. 20.5 cm. Condition: Overall fair–good. Some leaves detached. Old binding holes.