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Bidding Information
Lot #    6992
Auction End Date    3/30/2004 12:36:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Shem Tov Gagin
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר שם טוב גאגין
Author    [Ms.]
City    Cairo
Publication Date    1912
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 210:134 mm., light browning, ink on stationary, Sephardic script, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Asking the director of the Anglo-Palestine Bank to assist his needy father in Jerusalem. R. Shem Tov b. Isaac Raphael Hezekiah Gagin (b.1885), a descendant of a famous Moroccan family of rabbinical scholars, was Chief Judge of the London Portuguese Community prior to becoming Secretary of the Chief Rabbinate in Cairo.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Egypt
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica