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Lot #    22856
Auction End Date    3/3/2009 10:32:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Benjamin Mendelssohn of Komemiyot
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר בנימין מנדלזון, אב'ד קוממיות
Author    [Ms. - Hasidic - Women]
City    Kfar Ata
Publication Date    1936
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 270:207 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on stationary, neat Ashkenazic script, all in the Rabbi's hand, signed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Letter regarding the establishment of a Beth Jacob school for girls in Kfar Ata by R. Benjamin b. Menahem Mendel Mendelssohn (1904-1979) rabbi of Kfar Ata and Komemiyot. R. Benjamin was born in Plotsk into a family of devout Alexander disciples and educated in the old Polish system. He immigrated to Erez Israel where he was appointed rabbi of Kfar Ata. An erudite scholar he was instrumental in organizing the Va'ad Keren Shevu'ot which pays farmers to leave their field fallow in the Shevu'ot (seventh) year. His name was also involved in the Yoselle Shumacher case, as Yoselle is believed to have been hidden by him.
          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica