For your consideration is an original and historically significant autograph parliamentary manuscript by Hersz Luzer Zvi Heller (1889after 1958), Jewish member of the Polish Sejm and leading figure of the Hitachdut Zionist-socialist movement, written in Warsaw in January 1923 during the First Sejm of the Second Polish Republic. Executed entirely in Hellers hand on official printed stationery headed Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej and signed Heller at lower right, the document is an original working draft of amendments to resolutions of the Sejm Commission for the Fight Against High Prices, Komisja do Walki z Droyzn. Contemporary parliamentary reporting from January 1923 preserves the corresponding nine-point commission program, allowing the manuscript to be identified with a specific national legislative debate rather than merely described as a general economic memorandum.
Hellers handwritten amendments address some of the most urgent economic problems confronting newly independent Poland. The first provision strengthens the commission proposal by demanding an absolute prohibition on the export of foodstuffs, while subsequent clauses concern the export of other essential commodities in relation to domestic consumption, governmental supervision, price regulation, monopoly goods, cooperative and municipal distribution, and the allocation of credit. The sequence and subject matter correspond directly with the nine-point anti-droyzna resolutions under parliamentary consideration in late January 1923, establishing the manuscript as a working intervention in the Sejms attempt to address rapidly rising prices, shortages, speculation, and the deteriorating monetary situation that would culminate in the Polish hyperinflation crisis of 1923.
Hersz Luzer Heller, widely known in Zionist political circles as Zvi Heller, served in the Polish Sejm from 1922 to 1930 and was associated with the Jewish Parliamentary Circle and the Hitachdut movement. His surviving manuscript is particularly important as Judaica because it documents a Jewish parliamentarian participating directly in the formulation of general national economic policy rather than solely in legislation concerning Jewish communal or minority affairs. The interventionist character of the proposed amendments, including stronger controls over exports, essential commodities, credit, and distribution, is consistent with Hellers documented political milieu and places the manuscript squarely within the broader history of Jewish participation in the governmental institutions of interwar Poland.
The single sheet measures approximately 11.25 by 8.5 inches and survives on its original Sejm stationery with Hellers manuscript text and signature intact; the verso is blank. Expected age-related toning, minor staining, fold evidence, and handling wear are consistent with its use as a working parliamentary document. More than a signed political manuscript, this is an identifiable piece of legislative history: an autograph draft by Zvi Heller connected directly to the January 1923 deliberations of the Sejm Commission for the Fight Against High Prices, preserving tangible evidence of Jewish parliamentary participation during one of the defining economic crises of the early Second Polish Republic.