Bidspirit auction | (JERUSALEM). Sepher Takanoth HaChevrah Sha’arei

(JERUSALEM). Sepher Takanoth HaChevrah Sha’arei Chessed LeBinyan Batim BeYerushalayim [Bylaws of the Sha’arei Chessed Development Company). Includes Membership Certificate of David ben Aaron HaLevi Hamburger with autographs of R. YOSEF CHAIM SONNENFELD , R. Yechiel Michel Tikochinski, R. Eliyahu Romm, R. Yoel Moshe Salomon, R. Avraham HaLevi Prague and others. With multiple stamps of the Sha’arei Chessed Company, in Hebrew and German. pp. 15 (excluding blanks). Printed bylaws, two pages in manuscript. Some tears and creases. Without binding. 8vo. Jerusalem Loewy & Co., 1909. Additional manuscript page contains the 1914 sale contract between Hamburger and one Ze’ev Wolf Rogosnitzky for part of the former’s holdings in the neighborhood. Witnessed (and signed) by R. YA’AKOV MEIR SONNENFELD (son of R. Yosef Chaim), Naftali Zvi Porush, Chaim Shlomo Rosenthal and others. Sha’arei Chessed is one of Jerusalem’s oldest neighborhoods outside of the Old City’s walls. Its development was spearheaded by Ashkenazic members of Jerusalem’s Old Yishuv, who sought a solution to the dire conditions within the Old City. Construction began in 1909, and, over the course of the following century, the neighborhood retained its religiously conservative yet charming character, in line with the vision of its founders. Notable rabbis to have lived there include R. Ya’akov Moshe Charlap, R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, R. Shmuel Auerbach, R. Sholom Schwadron and the Tchebiner Rov.