Collection of Signed Invoices of “Kollel Otinia” – Jerusalem, 1899-1901

Printed invoices with handwritten signatures for receipt of distribution from Kollel Bukovina-Otinia, Jerusalem, (1899-1901). “Here in the Holy City of Jerusalem I have received… 189-, sent to me by the holy Rebbe of Otinia, total of…”. Kollel Bukovina-Otinia was established in Jerusalem as part of an outshoot of the “Kosov Kollel” which split into three Kollels: Vizhnitz, Kosov and Bukovina [later on “Kollel Zibernbergen” and “Kollel Mukachevo” were offshoots as well from the Kollel]. In 1895 the Rebbe Rabbi Chaim Hagar of Otinia (1863-1932), brother of the Rebbe Rabbi Yisrael of Vizhnitz, who also led a large Chassidic congregation in Galicia, was appointed to head the Kollel. For some reason these invoices were printed as a receipt of a distribution from the Rebbe and not from the Kollel, possibly due to some change in the official status of the Bokovina Kollel. Many known families of Jerusalem are signed: Grossman, Held, Rosenblatt, Baharad, Teper, Kanal, Goldinger, Schertzer, Barzel, Feldman, Klein, Cahana, Eisenstein, Linder and others. Dozens of leaves, approx. four invoices per column, total of approx. 350 signed invoices. Good-fair condition. Placed within orderly binder.