Yizkor and prayer book. Contains lists of deceased, synagogue prayer services, and memorial prayers. The scribe, Binyamin Zeʼev ben Elyaḳim Getsel Kats of Kempen, recorded the book's completion in ... Show moreYizkor and prayer book. Contains lists of deceased, synagogue prayer services, and memorial prayers. The scribe, Binyamin Zeʼev ben Elyaḳim Getsel Kats of Kempen, recorded the book's completion in 1765 in Breslau. The German colophon gives his name as Wolf Jacob von Kempen. There is a dedication in Hebrew on the t.p. by Moshe Segal as a memorial to his parents, Shelomoh and Esther Segal, dated 1802 or 1803. There the location is given as Auras (nowadays Uraz, a suburb of Wrocław). There are four unbound pages at the end of the book, two of which record the dates of the death of members of the scribe's family. The other two pages record names of deceased. The book is beautifully illustrated in black and white by the scribe. Of note: on p. 9a, in the service for berit milah, there are instructions for the contingency of the infant's being orphaned of one or both of his parents, indicating that it was a common phenomenon of the time. Lewin no. 235. For more information, see digital exhibit "Echoes of Auras: Memorbuch of a Jewish Community" at https://www.yu.edu/Libraries/Memorbuch Show less
Records of the Jewish community of Kempen, 1747-1812, with some entries covering earlier dates: p. 399 records 1688 and p. 402 mentions 1686. Included are lists of community members, locations of t... Show moreRecords of the Jewish community of Kempen, 1747-1812, with some entries covering earlier dates: p. 399 records 1688 and p. 402 mentions 1686. Included are lists of community members, locations of their synagogue seats, lists of those buried in the cemetery, charitable contributions, etc. Lewin no. 280. Show less
List of members of the Jewish community of Trachenberg, in Silesia, recording the donations for various mitsvot. There are folding indicators. On the first leaf, members are listed by family. Hence... Show moreList of members of the Jewish community of Trachenberg, in Silesia, recording the donations for various mitsvot. There are folding indicators. On the first leaf, members are listed by family. Henceforth, individual name indicators are assigned to respective pages, each page having a list of honors (Kohen, Levi, etc.). Lewin no. 100. Show less
