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-- PROPERTY OF ALAN DERSHOWITZ -- AN EXCEPTIONAL OLIVEWOOD MEGILLAH EICHA CASE WITH ORIGINAL MEGILLAH BY GETZEL HAKOHEN, SOFER. Jerusalem, 1887. Inscribed: The case is inscribed in Hebrew “THIS IS THE GIFT OG THE HUMBLE YEHUDA, HIS LIGHT SHOULD SHINE, SON OF THE RABBI YOSEF HAMBURGER, MAY HIS MAMORY BE A BLESSING AND HIS WIFE THE MODEST AND ESTEEMED LADY GITTEL KAROLINA, DAUGHTER OF RABBI DAVID ROTHSCHIKD OF HOLY MEMORY ON THE DAY THAT THEIR DEAR SON YOSEF REACHED BAR MITZVAH, HIS LIGHT SHOULD SHINE, ON THE EVE OF ROSH HOSHANA 29, ELUL 1889, G-D SHOULD GRANT THEM THE PRIVILEGE TO SEE HIM GROW TO REACH THE TORAH, THE WEDDING CANOPY AND GOOD DEEDS” ALSO INSCRIBED PRESENTED TO THE SYNAGOGUE OF RABBI YEHUDA SON OF RABBI ELIYAHU, ALSO KNOWN AS LOEB REIS OF HOLY MEMORY IN OUR CITY FRANKFURT-AU-MAIN 1888. RETURN US TO YOU AND WE WILL COME BACH . RENEW OUR DAYS LIKE THE THE OLD. The Synagogue “Rabbi Yehuda ben Rabbi Eliyahu was donated by Loeb Reis who left his house and 70,000 Florins to the chief Rabbi on the condition that the synagogue become as center of learning and charity. The synagogue was destroyed on Krystallnacht. Signed on pull tab in Hebrew “This is my work, Getzil Hacohen, scribe, here in Jerusalem the holy city. 14.3” long.