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Bidding Information
Lot #    15245
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 12:40:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Yotom ata hayita ozer
Title (Hebrew)    יתום אתה היית עוזר
Author    [Community] Great Palestine Orphan Asylum
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    A. L. Munzon (Lithograph Press)
Publication Date    1927
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [2] pp., 200:266 mm., light age staining, completed in ink.
          
Detailed
Description
   An official receipt from the Great Palestine Orphan Asylum "Diskin" Society, numbered No. 2054. The receipt is in Hebrew, Yiddish and English and is filled out to Shlomo Steinberg, and [his wife?] Hannah in receipt of one-pound sterling. The phrase at the top translates as "You helped an orphan". The receipt indicates that the funds will help supplies necessities for hundreds of poor orphans, and blesses the donor that the Al-mighty should reward him with all kinds of prosperity.

The back of the certificate has a short paragraph in English called Performance of the Institution, which indicates that the yearly expenses of the institution are over $70,000. In Yiddish are listed the statutes and privileges of the donors. For example, for the donation of $25 a year, the orphans will learn Mishnayot and say Kaddish for the entire first year after the death of the donor.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, Yiddish, English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica