Bidspirit auction | (PINKAS). NEW YORK. Pinkas D’Chevra

(PINKAS). NEW YORK. Pinkas D’Chevra Kadisha M’Cong. Rabbeinu Hillel Lichtenstein M’Kolomea. Manuscript in Hebrew and Yiddish written in a fine calligraphic hand. Consisting of: Page of founders, elaborate title-page, table of contents, by-laws, names of members, officers, donors, specific guidelines for the Burial Society’s practices. pp. 30 (excluding blanks). Original Hebrew titled thick boards. Heavy folio. New York, 1919 A student of the Chasam Sofer, Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein (1814-1891) was am uncompromising leader of Haredi autonomy in Hungary. In 1854 he was elected rabbi of Klausenburg, but due to internal opposition was expelled and after sojourns in Grosswardein and Szikszó, he settled in Kolomea, where he served for the remaining 24 years of his life. He worked closely alongisde his son-in-law, Akiva Yosef Schlesinger and his descendants included many Hungarian Admorim (Krasna, Sighet, Nayshloss, etc). The compilers of the present Pinkas are followers of the rabbi, newly settled in the United States. The synagogue first established in 1890 was located at 181 Ludlow Street in Lower Manhattan, later at 177 Suffolk Street.