Large archive, family history of the Rivlin family and the Old Yishuv. Original letters, students of the Gra, rare ...

Large archive, family history of the Rivlin family and the Old Yishuv. Original letters, students of the Gra, rare printed Jerusalem artifacts
Large archive of hundreds of pages, documents, newspaper clippings, rabbinical letters, and more…mainly dealing with the Jerusalem Rivlin family and the Old Yishuv. This was a treasure owned by a descendant of the Rivlin family, Dr. Asher Eliezer Rivlin of Netanya.

Critical items in the archive: Seder Yichus of the Rivlin family, handwritten by Rabbi Aryeh Levin; Seder Yichus of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Rivlin handwritten himself; manuscript by Rabbi Yeshaya Chashin on the immigration of the Gra’s students; a research study on the narrative blaming the Old Yishuv for an ‘addiction to divisiveness’; “Sefer HaBrit v’Zikaron of the Agudat Chevrat Meyasdei HaYishuv, whose first act was in the company of Petah Tikva”, Jerusalem 1881; Takanot and Beit Vaad Klali rules of Knesset Yisrael, Jerusalem 1919; Rare poster “Kol b’Rama”, a protest against the claims of the Chovevei Zion on the Jerusalem kollels, printed by Yoel Moshe Salomon, Jerusalem 1888 (see Shoshana HaLevi #630). Also many other items and factoids on the history of the Rivlin family.

The Rivlin family (aka the “Rivlin Shevet”) are primarily identified with the immigration of the Gra’s students given that Rabbi Hillel Rivlin and his son Rabbi Moshe Rivlin immigrated to Israel at the same time. The most famous descendant of the family is Rabbi Yosef Rivlin, son of Rabbi Moshe, “the founder of neighorhoods in Jerusalem”. Many famous rabbis, public figures, politicians, judges, etc. are descended from the family—there are more than 60,000 descendants of the original family alive today.