Obj. ID: 55321
  Ephemera  Advertisement for Ethrogs, Jaffa, 1906

The following description was prepared by William Gross:

This is an advertisement for Etrogs from a partnership of two men from Jaffa.  This is an advertisement for the same partners that had another printed in 1903.(038.011.067). The page carries a printed seal from the Ashkenazi community of Jerusalem. They ordered the printing of the page from Shmuel Zuckerman in Jerusalem.

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.

Sponsoring Institution:   Beit Mischar ha-Etrogim me-Et.....Moshe Cohen ve-Shutafafo Yosef Hillman