Obj. ID: 55223
  Printed Books  Tizkeh le-Shanim Rabot....., Jerusalem, circa 1900

The following description was prepared by William Gross:

Apparently this sheet was printed for a private person, Yitzhak Badhab, who gave it to his friends as a "Mishloach Manot" for the holiday of Purim. Badhab is a known personality from the early Jewish community in Jerusalem.

The page is printed in gold ink and contains illustrations of holy sites. The text is a special poem of thanksgiving for the holiday, most likely composed by the gift giver, Badhab. According to the type of printed vignettes of the Holy places, this page was ordered from the press of Shmuel Zuckerman.

Shmuel ben Ya’akov Halevy Zuckerman was born in Mesiritch in 1856. As a six-year-old child, he made Aliyah with his parents. He learned the printing trade while working for Yisrael Bak, after whose death he continued in the printing house of Bak’s son Nisan. He soon went to London, however, and worked in printing there before returning to Eretz Israel to work in the shop of Ag”n. By 1885 he was a partner in that enterprise and from 1886 became the sole owner, publishing books under his name, and becoming one of the foremost printers in Jerusalem. The press operated in the Old City of Jerusalem until Zuckerman moved it to the new city in 1926. Up to 1890, almost 80 books were printed from his press in addition to many single sheets. More than 150 items from the Zuckerman printing house exist in the Gross Family Collection.