Auction 91
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts Featuring an Extensive Collection of Rabbinic Autograph Letters.
Nov 12, 2020
(your local time)
USA
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
The auction has ended
LOT 7:
(HUNGARY).
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Sold for: $1,200
Start price:
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1,200
Estimated price:
$1,500 - $2,500
Auction house commission: 25%
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(HUNGARY).
Pinkas of the Chevra Kadisha of Kapesz.
Hebrew manuscript on paper, written in cursive Ashkenazic hands.
pp 280 (excluding blanks).
Kapesz (Nagykapos): 1866-1908
This manuscript records the names, payments and obligations of dozens of Hungarian Jews and their families in this fin de siècle Jewish community. An Orthodox Kehillah was formed in Nagykapes (known as Kapes in Yiddish) following the emancipation of the Jews in Hungary in 1867. A synagogue was built in 1890, as well as other communal institutions, such as a Talmud Torah, and Chevra Kadisha. By the 1920’s, the community numbered some 500 persons. Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel Fried (d. 1921) known as the Kapisher Rebbe, was the rabbi of the community for 46 years, beginning in 1875. This Pinkas is a rich resource for genealogy and research into Hungarian Jewry.
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