A Lease for an apartment in the Knesset Israel neighborhood - the signature of the tenant Rabbi Yechiel Michael ...

A Lease for an apartment in the Knesset Israel neighborhood - the signature of the tenant Rabbi Yechiel Michael Horowitz, the rabbi of the neighborhood, 1929
A lease for an apartment in the Knesset Israel neighborhood. The landlord renting the property is the 'General Committee of Knesset Israel', which was responsible for all the kolels in Jerusalem and head of the city's old yishuv. This Committee initiated and built the first neighborhoods outside the walls. One of the signatories on the contract on behalf of the committee, was R' Gedaliah Nachman Broder, a known activist in Jerusalem. He was a Gabay in the 'Etz chaim' synagogue, author of "The Jerusalem garden" and 'Spirit of the garden' and was a member of the General Committee.
The tenant is Rabbi Yechiel Michl Horowitz, who was the rabbi of the Knesset Israel neighborhood.
The contract is written on a double page folded into four pages in three languages: Hebrew, English and Arabic. The terms of the contract were printed, and the signatures in handwriting. The contract is valid for three years, as that was the custom, from 1929 until 1932.

Rabbi Yechiel Michal Horowitz (1862 - 1941), which is called by all: R. Michl the Dayan, was one of the outstanding students at Yeshivat Etz Chaim in Jerusalem. Accredited teaching by Rabbi Shmuel Salant,Rabbi of Jerusalem. In 1892 he was appointed Dayan and teacher in Jaffa. After more than a decade he came to Jerusalem and became there a Dayan.Was involved in public leadership in the city. Served as rabbi of the Knesset Israel's neighborhood. Maharil Diskin said about him, that he was "an important Teacher, one of those teachers we used to have in the past." Was the Author of "Giduley Zion" (crops Zion).

Size: 40X27 cm.
Condition: Very Good, has three folding.