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Bidding Information
Lot #    21298
Auction End Date    8/12/2008 11:38:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    General Israel Orphans' Home for Girls
Title (Hebrew)    בית היתומות הכללי
Author    [Community]
City    Jerusalem
Publication Date    195?
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Receipt-certificate, 276:356, light age staining, few creases.
          
Paragraph 1    A partially filled in certificate for a donation to the General Israel Orphans' Home for Girls. This certificate indicates the amount of $180 and the name of the donor, Ernesto Meir of Mexico, is written in gold ink. The name of the orphan is Rahel Albaz. The date is the 24th day of Sivan, 5720 (1960).

The certificate has information in Spanish, Yiddish and Hebrew. The President's name is printed Yisrael Zeev Minzberg, and the Principal's name as ...Yosef Weingarten.

          
Detailed
Description		    It happened a long time ago, when Palestine was still a Turkish province. One day the late Rabbi David Weingarten, of blessed memory, was walking along the narrow streets of Jerusalem. It was the time when a typhoid epidemic was raging in Jerusalem, which took a heavy toll of lives. He noted a young girl of about six leaning against a wall. There were no tears anymore in her eyes, just an indescribable look of terror and bewilderment. The girl had lost her father and mother; both had died a short while before and there wasn't a soul around to take care of the child. He took the child to his house and she became part of the family. During the following days and weeks, people picked up more children and two small rooms had to be rented. In 1912 there was already a small building accommodating 50 orphan girls. Finally, in l956, with the help of American friends, a new edifice was erected which now houses 500 girls - a model institution which provides warmth and loving care-physical and spiritual- from early childhood throughout the formative years until marriage.
          
Reference
Description		    http://www.gioh.org/default.asp
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Receipt
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, Spanish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica