Collection of Items – Georgian Community of Jerusalem – Notebook with Letters and Signatures of Jerusalem Leaders

Collection of Items – Georgian Community of Jerusalem – Notebook with Letters and Signatures of Jerusalem Leaders
Collection of items – Georgian community (immigrants) in Jerusalem.
· Handwritten notebook, Ki MiZion Tetze Torah – for collecting donations for a Talmud Torah for the community's children (who cannot attend other educational institutes because of language and culture differences…"). With letters of recommendation and signatures of Jerusalem rabbis and well-known figures such as: Recommendation of the members of the Sephardi Badatz, headed by the Ra'avad Rabbi Moshe B. Yitzchak Tajir; letter of recommendation by Rabbi Kook [copy in square writing]; two recommendations by rabbis of the Ashkenazi Badatz [Rabbi Lipman David Shuvaks, Rabbi Nachum Wallenstein, Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank, Rabbi Leib Dayan, etc]; letter of recommendation handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld; recommendation handwritten and signed by Rabbi Chaim Berlin [in square writing]; Rabbi Eliyahu Moshe Panizhil; etc. Jerusalem, [1910-1912]. Most of the notebook leaves are empty, some letters of recommendation are written on separate leaves and were pasted in the notebook.
· Ki MiZion Tetze Torah…” – A large printed leaf, call to support the construction of a Talmud Torah for the community’s children. Rabbis’ letters of recommendations which are printed on the leaf appear in this notebook. [Jerusalem, c. 1910].
· Two copies of a machzor for Rosh HaShana and the days of Selichot, with the Ohalei Ya’akov commentary by Rabbi Ya’akov Yitzchaki. Jerusalem, 1908. In one copy is the author’s dedication from 1911 to the She’erit Yisrael Yeshiva of the Georgian community.
· Enclosed: a group photograph (unidentified).
Georgian (Gruzian) Jews, named by the Ottoman Turks “Gurgim”, moved to Eretz Israel in the first half of the 19th century, settled in Jerusalem, established a synagogue and a yeshiva, led community lives and also established a special Kollel to support the community’s poor.
5 items (notebook, two books, printed leaf and photo). Varied size and condition.