A letter in the handwriting and signature of Israel Belkind, pioneer of the First Aliya, when he headed the school of the Kiryat Sefer orphans of Ukraine. Israel Belkind [1861-1929]: founder of the Bilu movement, one of the pioneers of Jewish education in Eretz Israel, founded the Hebrew school in Jaffa in 1889. In 1903 he established the Kiryat Sefer Agricultural School in the village of Meir Shfeya near Zichron Yaacov The “Kiryat Sefer” which children from the Kishinev pogroms studied. [1] An official sheet of paper of the National School for the Cultivation of the Land Kiryat Sefer, under the direction of Belkind. 29×22 cm. Very fine condition.
