RABBINICAL EDICT FORBIDDING THE SECULAR EDUCATION OF JEWISH CHILDREN IN JERUSALEM, 1878

(JUDAICA—JERUSALEM). Oloth Habrith. Jerusalem: Judah & Jerusalem, (1878). Broadside, printed on recto. Framed. $2500.

Broadside issued by the Ashkenazi Rabbis of Jerusalem reaffirming their ruling forbidding the secular education of Jewish children in the Holy City of Jerusalem “under pain of excommunication.”

The Rabbis stress that even the teaching of the Arabic language is forbidden as is the tutoring in private of a student. Signed (typographically) by Rabbis Joshua Leib Diskin of Brisk and his Beth Din, Joseph Chaim Sonnenfeld, Eliezer Menachem Biderman and Mordechai Eliezer Weber, among others. Text in Hebrew.

Fine condition. Scarce.