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Manuscript signed by Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer and the managers of Beis Va’ad Hakelali. Letter to the philanthropist L. Bergman of London with a request to assist in establishing an eye clinic in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, [1904].
"Our petition pertains to a most necessary thing, on which the life of our brothers the residents of the Holy land almost depends"; letter by the managers of Beis Va’ad Hakelali with a request to assist in establishing an eye clinic and saving the eyesight of the residents of Jerusalem. Jerusalem [1904].
[1] leaf, official stationery, 23X28 cm. Signed by [8] managers of the Kollelim united by the Va’ad Hakelali and its secretary: Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer, Rabbi Eliyahu Ze’ev Wolfson, Rabbi Gedalya Nachman Broder, Asger Dov Sussman, Rabbi Elimelech Perlman, [3] additional signatories and the secretary of the Beis Va’ad Rabbi Dov Ber Abramowitz.
Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer, a disciple of Rabbi Yisroel of Salant, Rav in Petersburg, chairman of the Beis Va’ad Hakelali.
Rabbi Gedalya Nachman ben Rabbi Meshulam Paltiel Broder (1857-1940). Was born in Vasilkova and immigrated to Eretz Yisroel in 1885. Author of Sefer Gan Yerushalayim (Jerusalem, 1899) and Ru’ach HaGan (Jerusalem, 1923). One of the managers of Kollel Grodno. A confidante of the Aderes and Rabbi Chaim Berlin.
Rabbi Asher Dov Sussman [Di Leon], known as Rabbi Asher Minsker, an enthusiastic activist. His son, rabbi Yosef Sussmanovich, was Av Beis Din of Wilkomirer and the son-in-law of the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, the Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka and Hebron.
Rabbi Elimelech Perlman – was sent as a Shadar of Kollel Estreich and Galicia. His father, Rabbi Yisroel Isser Perlman, was a disciple of the Chozeh of Lublin, Rabbi Elimelech immigrated to Eretz Yisroel in his childhood with his mother, after his father’s passing and became one of the important activists of Jerusalem.
Background: The Trachoma disease that affected the residents of Jerusalem during the late 19th century caused an urgent need of an eye clinic. The first Jewish eye doctor, Dr. Moshe Erlinger, immigrated to Eretz Yisroel in 1908, treating patients free of charge in his clinic in Me’ah She’arim; however, he left the country in 1911. In 1912, the Frankfurter organization LeMa’an Zion, sent Dr. Avraham Albert Ticho to replace him and open an eye clinic in Jerusalem.
Fold marks, wear and restoration along the fold lines, good condition.
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