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LOT 61:
First Poster Printed in Jerusalem – Mudaat Zot – Jerusalem, 1841
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First Poster Printed in Jerusalem – Mudaat Zot – Jerusalem, 1841
Printed poster, Mudaat Zot – a call for righteous women in Eretz Israel and abroad to donate money regularly to the Kiryat Chanah fund, which would go on to transfer the money to various funds in Jerusalem. Jerusalem: [R. Yisrael Bak, 1841].
The present item is the first poster printed in Jerusalem, and the second printed item in Jerusalem, printed the same year as Avodat HaKodesh, the first book to be printed in Jerusalem.
The poster appeals for women to donate regular sums of money to the fund while performing the mitzvot of Challah, Nidah and Hadlakat HaNer (candle lighting; the three words form the acronym of the fund's name, Chanah). Half of the money in the fund would be transferred to the Tiferet Yisrael yeshiva in Jerusalem to assist the yeshiva's Torah scholars, and the other half would be divided between four different Jerusalem funds: the fund for the poor, the fund for the sick to be directed by the gabbai of Bikur Cholim, a special fund to assist in marrying off orphans, and the Ahavat Chesed fund to provide interest-free collateral-based loans for the needy.
[1] leaf. 21.5X32.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Many open tears, affecting text, repaired with paper filling. Repaired by mounting on paper. Original text fragments from another copy mounted on damaged parts of text.
This poster was first discovered by the bibliographer Aryeh Tauber, inside the binding of a book. See: Aryeh Tauber, Teudot MiYamim SheAvru, in: Mizrach UMaarav, III, Jerusalem 1929, pp. 67-71 (enclosed).
The second title printed in Jerusalem. Sh. Halevy, no. 2.
Provenance: Kestenbaum & Company, New York, March 2003, no. 119.
