(Mohel Bichel)

AUCTION 35 | Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 at 1:00

Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 236

(CIRCUMCISION RECORD-BOOK)

(Mohel Bichel)

42 manuscript pages recording the performance of 862 circumcisions in numerous locations throughout Hungary and Czechoslovakia including: Pest, Pupa, Prostitz and Pressburg Aschkenazi cursive Hebrew script. Upper left corners frayed affecing few words. Contemporary boards, rubbed. 8vo

(Glogau-Pest): 1792-1834

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,700

The circumcisions were performed by Yoseph Ha-Levi (Muhlberg), the son of R. Moshe Segal, Rosh Beth Din of Glogau