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LOT 85:
LETTER OF SUPPORT ISSUED BY CONSTANTINOPLE COMMUNITY FOR FUNDRAISING MISSION ON BEHALF OF HEBRON COMMUNITY. ...
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LETTER OF SUPPORT ISSUED BY CONSTANTINOPLE COMMUNITY FOR FUNDRAISING MISSION ON BEHALF OF HEBRON COMMUNITY. 5525 [1765].
Printed broadside CONTAINING MOVING LETTER APPEALING FOR SUPPORT FOR Hebron Jewish community representatives Rabbi Haim Rachamim Badjayo and Rabbi Yitzchak Ze’evi.
The letter describes the community’s suffering and its heavy burden of debt, and threat of expulsion if the debts are not paid.
[Constantinople] 1765.
Signed by Avraham b. Yehuda Meyuchas, Shlomo Alfandari, Yitzchak Chodeida, Baruch Zanana, Moshe b. Yaakov Ashkenazi and Haim Yosef Baruch.
For details of this fundraising mission, see Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael pp. 586-589.
1 side. 19.5 x 30 cm. Condition fair, slight worming.
