Auction 13
Lot 387:
Lot of documents, calendars, and paper items from the “Tiferet Zion Hospice for the Poor and Soup Kitchen and Zaharei Hama Beit Midrash for Torah and Prayer in Jerusalem.” Contracts, donation documents, receipts, and letters regarding activities at the site. The Zaharei Hama synagogue is a historical structure in a wonderful and unusual building with a sundial at Yafo 92 in Jerusalem, opposite Shuk Mahane Yehuda. When it was built, it was the highest building in Jerusalem outside the Old City. It was built by Rabbi Shmuel Levi, who moved to Israel from the United States; he was exposed to the travails of new immigrants in Jerusalem and bought for them a home with the goal of establishing the “Tiferet Zion v’Yerushalayim Hospice for the Poor” that would provide for new immigrants a sort of “Absorption Center” that was comfortable and friendly. On the one-story home he built three additional stories and an attic made of wood. The synagogue and hospice were dedicated in 1908.
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