Discovery! Group of Documents about the Activities of Rabbi David Bahara"n for the Founding of a Group of Avreichim ...

Discovery! Group of Documents about the Activities of Rabbi David Bahara"n for the Founding of a Group of Avreichim - "Shomrei Mishmeret HaKodesh"
From 1940 onward there was a public dispute in Jerusalem regarding the character of the city. The dispute took place across several strata: the attitude towards the Va'ad HaLeumi, changes in the educational presses, changes in language from Yiddish to Hebrew, and changes in the dress of both men and women.
Rabbi David was fearful of all changes, and stood against any deviation from old practices. This folder reveals an as-yet unknown facet of this. In 1942, he turned to many of the people in the yishuv with two initiatives. One was the necessity of establishing a "chaburah" in which young and old gather together to strengthen Divine service and stand as a wall against breaches. The second initiative was a list of recommendations as to how to enlist "soldiers" to guard this watch.
Before us are approximately 20 responses written by noted Chareidi citizens of the city, who responded to his initiative, each with his own ideas and recommendations.
For example: Rabbi Shmuel Tefilansky, Rabbi Baruch Yitzchak Freund, R' Nachum Friedman, R' Shneur Friedman, R' Shraga Feivel Frank, R' Alter Heller, R' Hillel Wind, R' Baruch Loebel, R' Avraham Hersch Cohen and others. These activities of his for the sake of strengthening religion are completely unknown; they are revealed here for the first time!
Printed poster from Rabbi David Bahara"n: 'Letter of reproach from a Yerushalmi Jew from the old generation to the editor of theֲ Kol Yisraelֲ newspaper.'
In Adar 1936, a private letter from R' Elchanan to his acquaintance, R' David Potash, then of Tel Aviv, was published. The content of the letter was an extremely sharp protest against Agudat Yisrael's considering politically joining the Va'ad HaLeumi; and that he has no doubt that in the lifetime of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, they would not have been content with this. Various activists distributed the letter in the streets of Jerusalem, under the title 'Halachah Pesukah m'et Geon Yisrael' about the negotiations between Agudat Yisrael and the Va'ad HaLeumi. As a result of this publication, a letter to the editorֲ appeared inֲ Kol Yisraelֲ [20 Iyar 1935]ֲ  from one of the prominent citizens of the city, attesting that he had the impression that R' Elchanan did not at all intend the negotiation being carried out those days at the initiative of Agudat Yisrael, about the legal status of the communities. After he raised several more unusual aspects of the letter's contents, he concludes that they are only to rely on the words of Rabbi Dushinsky, who is the rabbi of the city.
As a response to this, R' David Bahara"n published an objection to the writer of the above letter. 27 Iyar, 1935. Extremely rare.
Rabbi David was born in 1866 to his father, the gaon R' Nachum of Shadik, and to his mother, Minnah-Leah, daughter of the famous gaon Rabbi Moshe Maggid (Rivlin), leader of the Perushim community. He was orphaned the same year he was born, and was raised and educated by his half-brother R' Shlomo Zalman Bahara"n - one of the leading activists in the city, and was also educated by Rabbi Meir Auerbach - rabbi of the city. He married Sarah, daughter of the gaon Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger, when he was 16 years old. After his marriage, he studied at the Etz Chaim yeshivah, and when Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin ascended to Jerusalem, he was drawn to him and studied under him. He was one of the founders of the Ohel Moshe yeshivah, and studied there until his passing. He was one of the leading Torah scholars of the city; he trembled over each every halachah, and was one of the leaders of Shomrei Mishmeret HaKodesh. He passed away on 27 Av 1946.
Various conditions and sizes. Overall fine condition.