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Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld and Rav Kook, Call for donations, 1920
Call for donations: Abraham Cook and R. J. H. Sonnenfeld on collecting donations. Jerusalem, 1920s Size: 28.5x44.5 cm. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1849-1932) was an ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi public figure and rabbi of Jerusalem. In 1920, together with Rav Yeruham Diskin, he founded Eda Haredit and became its first chief rabbi. Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook (Rav Kook) (1865-1935) - rabbi, kabbalist and public figure of the early 20th century, the creator of the philosophical concept of religious Zionism, according to which the creation of the State of Israel is the beginning of messianic deliverance. He served as Rabbi of Jaffa (1904-1914), Rabbi of Jerusalem (1920-1921) and became the first Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of the Land of Israel (1921-1935). Cooke and Sonnenfeld had a difficult relationship, but they deeply respected each other, as evidenced by their respectful address to each other in correspondence., SKUKAZ000026 kaz_gr