Alshekh Shalom
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ALSHEIKH, SHALOM BEN JOSEPH (1859– 1944), rabbi of the Yemenite community of
Jerusalem. Alsheikh preached and taught at the Alsheikh Great Synagogue in Sana. He left his
home town in 1888 and in early 1891 reached Jerusalem. There he first devoted himself to
studying in various yeshivot. However, he became involved in the leadership of the community of
Yemenite immigrants in Jerusalem, founding educational and charitable institutions for them. In
1893 Alsheikh was elected to the administrative committee of the Yemenite community; in 1895
he was one of the founders of the kabbalist yeshivah Rehovot ha-Nahar; and in 1908 was chosen
chief rabbi of the Yemenite community of Jerusalem. He left several works in manuscript form,
including a kabbalistic commentary on the Torah, sermons, commentary on Yemenite liturgy, and
various liturgical poems. In his unfinished Divrei ha-Yamim le-Adat ha-Teimanim bi-Yrushalayim
("Chronicles of the Yemenite Community in Jerusalem"), he describes the tremendous awakening
of Sana Jewry to the idea of emigration to Erez Israel and the beginning of the actual emigration
in 1881– 82.
[Avraham Yaari]
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110 2· ‡ aNaḥalat yiśraʾel ramah.
245 10 ‡ aPrinted ephemera collection,‡ f1920?-1942?
300 ·· ‡ a66 items.
545 ·· ‡ aNaḥalat yiśraʾel ramah was established in 1887-1888 by Yiśraʾel Rubinshteyn and
Rabbi Yitsḥaḳ Tsevi Rivlin. The group planned to settle the Ramah, an area near the
grave of the prophet Samuel in the outskirts of Jerusalem.
520 ·· ‡ aThis collection consists mainly of receipts. Financial records of the organization from
the 1920's, reminders to pay dues, notices of meetings, and ballots for elections
constitute the rest of the collection. Many of the items are addressed to Rav Shalom
Yosef Alsheikh.
580 ·· ‡ aForms part of: Israeli broadside collection, 1878-1981.
546 ·· ‡ aIn Hebrew.
555 ·· ‡ aCard file‡ bavailable in library.
610 20 ‡ aNaḥalat yiśraʾel ramah.
650 ·0 ‡ aLand settlement‡ zJerusalem.
650 ·0 ‡ aAgricultural colonies‡ zJerusalem.
600 10 ‡ aAlsheikh, Shalom Yosef.
651 ·0 ‡ aJerusalem‡ xHistory.
710 2· ‡ aNaḥalat yiśraʾel ramah.
773 1· ‡ 7nnbc‡ tIsraeli broadside collection, 1878-1981.
852 ·· ‡ aYeshiva University.‡ bArchives.