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Important Collection of Letters from the Rabbis of Jerusalem, 1898–1940. - 1. Bill of Sale from the Austro-Hungarian Kolel, Jerusalem, 1898. Includes the stamp of the Kolel and signatures of the great rabbis: Rabbi Moshe Nachum Wallenstein (Av Beit Din) Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld Rabbi Yosef Binyamin Shahn [Shimonovitz]. 2.  Will, Jerusalem, 1913–1914. Signed by the great rabbis: Rabbi Moshe Nachum Wallenstein (Av Beit Din) Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank Rabbi Chaim Menachem Mendel Sherlin Signatures of witnesses: R. Pinchas Batyakoff R. Avraham Brac''h Segal Hamburger Includes the stamp of the Beit Din. 3. Emotional Letter from the Diskin Orphanage to Rabbi Eliezer Silver, Av Beit Din of Springfield, circa 1930 Signed by: Rabbi Dov Ber Halevi Epstein Rabbi Moshe Leib Bernstein Rabbi Yitzchak Roshkash Also joined by the Gaonim: Rabbi Eliyahu Klatskin, Av Beit Din of Lublin Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld 4. Letter from the Diskin Orphanage to Rabbi Shlomo Steinberg in Boksburg North, South Africa, 1929 Signed by: Rabbi Dov Ber Halevi Epstein Rabbi Moshe Leib Bernstein Rabbi Yitzchak Roshkash Also joined by the Gaonim Rabbi Eliyahu Klatskin, Av Beit Din of Lublin (with a stamp resembling a signature) Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld 5. Passionate Appeal for the Relief Committee for Austrian and Burgenland Refugees, 1940 (or 1945). Typed letter with typewritten signatures of Austrian rabbis and community leaders who survived the Holocaust inferno and immigrated to Israel. Below is added a handwritten note from Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, including five lines in his handwriting: ”He who speaks of righteousness within Jerusalem, ” his signature, and stamp.