[Letter, 11 December 1768, Berlin to David Berlin]. = [מכתב, ב' ראש חודש טבת תקכ"ט, בערלין אל דוד בערלין].

Contributor:

Berlin, David ben Loeb, -1771 (addressee); Lamm, Louis, 1871-1943 (former owner)

Name:

Jaffe, Zev Wolff

Timespan:

18th century

Date:

1768

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 121 (May 5, 2020) lot 423 as part of the archive of David ben Loeb Berlin (-1771).

Subject:

Jews; History; Rabbis; Jewish merchants; Witnesses; Actions and defenses; Actions and defenses -- 18th century; Witnesses -- Religious aspects; Jewish merchants -- Germany -- Berlin -- 18th century -- Correspondence; Jewish merchants -- Czech Republic -- Slavkov u Brna -- 18th century -- Correspondence; Rabbis -- Germany -- Hamburg -- 18th century -- Correspondence; Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- 18th century -- History -- Sources; Jews -- Czech Republic -- Slavkov u Brna -- 18th century -- History -- Sources; Jews -- Germany -- Hamburg -- 18th century -- History -- Sources

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Sources; Correspondence; Manuscripts, European; Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 18th century; Letters (correspondence); Correspondence artifacts; Personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper; 205 x 178 (175 x 160) mm

Geographic Subject:

Germany -- Hamburg; Czech Republic -- Slavkov u Brna; Germany -- Berlin

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. document.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Layout: Written in twenty one lines (nineteen lines of letter text, three lines of greeting); autograph at end, extending below final line; single line date above letter text.; Script: Written in a Ashkenazic cursive script.; Origin: Written in Berlin, Germany.; Likely a member of the Jaffe family of Berlin, merchants and advisors to the Prussian nobility (such as Daniel Itzig (1723-1799)); writer may be identical with Wolff Jaffe-Schlesinger of Berlin (died 1800), grandson of the Vienna shtadlan Marx Schlesinger (1684-1754).; Hebrew; postscript in Yiddish.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Room, CAJS Rar Ms 559l

Collection:

David ben Loeb Berlin correspondence