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Auction archive: Lot number 440

Huge Archive of the Amdur (Amdursky) Law Firm – Documents and Rabbis’ Letters, Files of Jerusalem Institutes, and more

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Auction archive: Lot number 440

Huge Archive of the Amdur (Amdursky) Law Firm – Documents and Rabbis’ Letters, Files of Jerusalem Institutes, and more

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Huge archive of the Alexander Amdur (Amdursky) Law Firm in Jerusalem composed of dozens of files regarding: property and apartments, estates, charity institutes and yeshivot, war reparations and Torah adjudications. Contains thousands of documents, letters and paper items including letters by rabbis and public figures, letters and documents linked to institutes and various affairs in Jerusalem. [C. 1930-1960]. Among the items: • Document signed by Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel. Mir Yeshiva, 1948. • Documents signed by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook. • Letters and document signed by Rabbi Ya'akov Meir "the Rishon L'Zion", Rabbi Ben Zion Chai Uziel. Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank, Rabbi Bezalel Zolty, Rabbi Ya'akov Klemes, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Valdenberg, Rabbi Elazar Menachem Schach, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tikochinsky, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Rabbi Ben Zion Chazan. • Estate files, signed by many rabbis. • Writs of appointment of guardianship rights of the Jerusalem Beit Din, signed by Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank, Rabbi Chizkiya Shabtai and Rabbi Ya'akov Klemes. • Testament of Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman and many documents of Rabbi Herzog's family. • Many letters signed by Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Herzog. • Many documents of the "Committee for people harmed by the events in Jerusalem" in 1948. • Interesting moving letter, by Rabbi Aryeh Levine, from Sivan 1948, expressing the pain he shares with his Jewish brethren. • Interesting letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Ya'akov Halberstam, the Tshakover Rebbe. • Many documents of yeshivot and Torah institutes: The Harry Fischel Institute, the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and the Beit Yosef Zvi Yeshiva (Dushinsky), the Me'ah She'arim Yeshiva, Va'ad HaYeshivot, Musad HaRav Kook, Mir Yeshiva, Slonim Yeshiva, Chevron Yeshiva, Porat Yosef Yeshiva, the Weingarten Orphanage, Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva, Gamach Talpiot, Kollel Chabad, Kollel America, the She'arim construction project initiated by Rabbi Menachem Porush and Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Cohen, etc. The archive also contains family documents and items, photos and passports of the Amdursky family [the father of the family, Yerachmiel Amdursky (1876-1956) was a renowned Jerusalem public activist, a pioneer hotelier involved in the construction of Jerusalem neighborhoods: Romema (he resided there), Mekor Baruch, Geula and Bayit Vegan. Many letters in the collection were sent to Yerachmiel Amdursky, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, with the special booklet printed by Grayevsky in honor of Amdursky's birthday]. Approximately 2000 paper items, varied size and condition.

Auction archive: Lot number 440
Auction:
Datum:
11 Mar 2015
Auction house:
Kedem Auction House Ltd.
King George st. 58
9242209 Jerusalem
Israel
office@kedemltd.com
+972 (0)77 5140223
+972 (0)2 9932048
Beschreibung:

Huge archive of the Alexander Amdur (Amdursky) Law Firm in Jerusalem composed of dozens of files regarding: property and apartments, estates, charity institutes and yeshivot, war reparations and Torah adjudications. Contains thousands of documents, letters and paper items including letters by rabbis and public figures, letters and documents linked to institutes and various affairs in Jerusalem. [C. 1930-1960]. Among the items: • Document signed by Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel. Mir Yeshiva, 1948. • Documents signed by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook. • Letters and document signed by Rabbi Ya'akov Meir "the Rishon L'Zion", Rabbi Ben Zion Chai Uziel. Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank, Rabbi Bezalel Zolty, Rabbi Ya'akov Klemes, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Valdenberg, Rabbi Elazar Menachem Schach, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tikochinsky, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Rabbi Ben Zion Chazan. • Estate files, signed by many rabbis. • Writs of appointment of guardianship rights of the Jerusalem Beit Din, signed by Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank, Rabbi Chizkiya Shabtai and Rabbi Ya'akov Klemes. • Testament of Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman and many documents of Rabbi Herzog's family. • Many letters signed by Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Herzog. • Many documents of the "Committee for people harmed by the events in Jerusalem" in 1948. • Interesting moving letter, by Rabbi Aryeh Levine, from Sivan 1948, expressing the pain he shares with his Jewish brethren. • Interesting letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Ya'akov Halberstam, the Tshakover Rebbe. • Many documents of yeshivot and Torah institutes: The Harry Fischel Institute, the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and the Beit Yosef Zvi Yeshiva (Dushinsky), the Me'ah She'arim Yeshiva, Va'ad HaYeshivot, Musad HaRav Kook, Mir Yeshiva, Slonim Yeshiva, Chevron Yeshiva, Porat Yosef Yeshiva, the Weingarten Orphanage, Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva, Gamach Talpiot, Kollel Chabad, Kollel America, the She'arim construction project initiated by Rabbi Menachem Porush and Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Cohen, etc. The archive also contains family documents and items, photos and passports of the Amdursky family [the father of the family, Yerachmiel Amdursky (1876-1956) was a renowned Jerusalem public activist, a pioneer hotelier involved in the construction of Jerusalem neighborhoods: Romema (he resided there), Mekor Baruch, Geula and Bayit Vegan. Many letters in the collection were sent to Yerachmiel Amdursky, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, with the special booklet printed by Grayevsky in honor of Amdursky's birthday]. Approximately 2000 paper items, varied size and condition.

Auction archive: Lot number 440
Auction:
Datum:
11 Mar 2015
Auction house:
Kedem Auction House Ltd.
King George st. 58
9242209 Jerusalem
Israel
office@kedemltd.com
+972 (0)77 5140223
+972 (0)2 9932048
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