Beschreibung:

About 450 letters, telegrams and paper items, which belonged to lawyer Arnold Spaer. Jerusalem and other places in Palestine and Europe, late 1940s [some are from earlier or later years]. English, and some Hebrew, German and French. Arnold Spaer (1919-2011), a lawyer, born in Danzig. Acquired his legal education in the Government School of Law in Jerusalem, and after graduation he was accepted for internship in the office of the lawyer Dov Yosef (appointed later as military governor of Jerusalem and as minister). During World War II served as interpreter in the British Army, and after returning to Palestine he was appointed military prosecutor and served as assistant to Yosef during the Independence War. This collection documents his activity in the late 1940s. It includes: letters and copies of letters, handwritten and typewritten, sent from and to Spaer, about different topics (legal cases, several letters from his military service period, a complaint about damage caused to Spaer's car by a bullet shot by a Mandate Police officer, correspondence with coin collectors and various numismatic groups, letters from Ya'akov Tehon and Eliyahu Lestschinsky, and more); ephemeral items (parking tickets, theater tickets, receipts for donations to JNF and "Shekel" donations, and more); Hamei Tiberias & Commissioners of Stamp Duties – a notebook with a handwritten preparation of a legal petition; as well as receipts, forms, greeting cards, invitations and more items. About 450 items. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. See items 37, 52 and 58.