Letter by Sages of Jerusalem thanking the Jews of Sacramento, California for their Generous Donation. Jerusalem, 1852.
This letter was dispatched to Sir Moses Montefoire regarding the generous contribution of the Jewish community in Sacramento, California to the destitute residents of Jerusalem.
This is a document of historic interest regarding early jewish settlers on the West coast.
Jews from Europe settled in Sacramento, California from 1849 following the famous “California Gold Rush”.
In 1851 the early settlers from Germany and Poland established the first Shul and community “Bnei Yisroel” in Sacramento which was the first shul in the whole state of California.
This document dated 1852, is from the infancy of the jewish settlements in California.
The letter features the noted autographs of famous Ashkenazic and Sephardic Rabbanim and their Kollel representatives:
1. Rishon Lezion Rabbi Yitzchak Kovo (1770-1854) numbered among the great Sephardic sages in Jerusalem. He was appointed Rishon Lezion in 1848 and taught the Sdei Chemed and Yisa Brachah.
2. Rabbi Shmuel Salant (1816-1909) was the legendary Rav of Yerushalayim and leader of the Ashkenazic community for close to a half-century. He journeyed to the Holy Land in 1841 where he served in assorted spiritual leadership positions and directed myriad Torah and charity institutions in Yerushalayim for seventy years.
3. Rabbi Yeshaya Bardaky (1790-1863) was the leader of the Ashkenazic Jewish community in Yerushalayim, a son-in-law of Harav Yisrael of Shklov (author of the Pe’as Hashulchan), and disciple of Harav Chaim of Volozhin. He journeyed to Tzfas in 1810, but following the devastating earthquake that ravaged the city, settled in Yerushalayim where he stood at the forefront of the Ashkenazic community.
4. Rabbi Nissan Beck (son of the famous Tzfas and Jerusalem printer Rabbi Yisrael Beck), was a distinguished community activist and a close attendant of the Admor Harav Yisrael of Ruzhin and his son the Admor of Sadigura.
Jerusalem, 13 Cheshvan 5613 (October 26, 1852). Thin, light blue paper. Page size: 27×21 cm. Impressive coal stamp of the Ashkenazic Kollels in Jerusalem .
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