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Lot #    21309
Auction End Date    8/12/2008 11:43:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Receipt form
Title (Hebrew)    éúåí àúä äééú òåæø
Author    Great Palestine Orphan Asylum Diskin Soc.
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Defus Ibn A. L. Munzon
Publication Date    1920's
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Single sheet of paper printed on both sides, 208:328 mm., light age staining.
          
Paragraph 1    A receipt form from the Great Palestine Orphan Asylum Diskin Soc. printed in Hebrew, Yiddish and English with space for the date, name, amount and representative of the society's name to be filled in. The date indicates 568_, indicating that is was printed during the 1920's. The Hebrew heading translates as " You are helping an orphan."

The other side of the form has a short paragraph in English on"The Performance of the Institution" and indicates that statutes and privileges of the donors is written in full in the accompanying Yiddish material (printed on the same paper).

          
Detailed
Description		    R. Moses Joshua Judah Leib Diskin was active in establishing several communal institutions in Jerusalem. In 1880 he founded the orphanage which still bears his name. He who was recognized as one of the Jewish people’s leading luminaries of the past two hundred years. At the height of his career R. Diskin abandoned a prestigious rabbinical position and immigrated to Israel. Upon his arrival, he found a large idealistic community living under near impossible conditions. The persecution and disease from which the Jews of the Holy Land suffered had destroyed many families. As a result, R.Diskin encountered countless young orphans and unfortunate youth whose physical well-being were at great risk. Recognizing the urgency of their plight, Rabbi Diskin began gathering these needy children, one-by-one, into his humble home. In time, as their numbers continued to grow, he established the “Great Institution for Orphans” that came to be known as the Diskin Orphanage of Jerusalem. Until his last days, Rabbi Diskin labored unceasingly to help these unfortunate youth, doing whatever was necessary to provide them with a home and all their basic needs. With Rabbi Diskin’s passing in 1898, his lifework was taken up by his only son, Rabbi Yitzchok Yerucham Diskin. It was Rabbi Yitzchok Yerucham who built the magnificent Diskin Orphanage campus – the symbol of “the world is built on kindness’’ that overlooks the entrance of Jerusalem. Ever since then, Beit Diskin has undergone many changes and modifications, each time transforming itself to meet the new challenges and needs of the ever-changing times. If in the past the primary purpose of an orphanage was to provide a home for children whose lot had left them without the simplest trappings of family life (parental care), conventional practice today uses the “orphanage” to employ pedagogical and therapeutic counseling in order to enable children from dysfunctional homes to maintain as normal an existence as possible given their difficult circumstances. Accordingly, Beit Diskin has designed the various projects of its welfare network with an eye to enabling the child and his family to live regular lives; providing them with physical, financial and moral support that concomitantly enhances their human dignity. Every effort is made to develop a sincere relationship with each family, giving the parents and children the feeling that in the Diskin staff they have a friend on whom they can rely, rather than a welfare system on whom they are dependent. Special attention is also given to maintaining each child’s personal dignity and privacy; no less in need of esteem than the rest of us.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskin_Orphanage
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Receipt
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, English, Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica