TAKANOTh OF THE LIVERPOOL SYNAGOGUE. Contains 35 "old" Takanoth and 52 "new" Takanoth.
AUCTION 16 |
Tuesday, June 25th,
2002 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din
Lot 37
(ANGLO-JUDAICA)
TAKANOTh OF THE LIVERPOOL SYNAGOGUE. Contains 35 "old" Takanoth and 52 "new" Takanoth.
Liverpool: 1805
Est: $6,000 - $7,000
PRICE REALIZED $6,000
Important ledger containing lengthy and interesting rules and regulations governing procedures of the Liverpool Synagogue and cemetery of Liverpool and signed by all members. Concerns prayers, holidays, disputes, weddings, charity pledges, the Chazan, Shamash, Gabbaim etc.
Significantly rule no. 20 states that the community falls under the jurisdiction of the presiding Rabbi of the Dukes Place Synagogue in London, who must give permission for all marriages
“The Old Hebrew Congregation was organized at Turton Court in 1780. Its first cemetery was acquired nine years later and its Yiddish regulations drawn up in 1799. The first synagogue, built on a site in Seel Street...was consecrated in 1808.” EJ, XI col.409