Takanoth HaKehillah [Regulations of the Aschkenazic Community of Amsterdam]. Title within typographic border. Hebrew in square characters and Yiddish in waybertaytsch letters. ff. (4), 2-33. (Abraham Athias, 1737). [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1478].
* Bound with: Ampliatie al takanoth di-kehilatheinu ["Amplification upon the By-Laws of Our Community": forbidding religious marriage ceremony from taking place unless government approved; obligating relatives to pay for the burial of their loved one; and imposing various "kenasoth" or fines for infractions of by-laws]. (The Brothers Proops, 1759). Yiddish. ff. 4. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1772].
* Translat. Ampliatie al tikun L"H ["Amplification upon By-law 35": Denies formal marriage ceremony to pregnant woman or woman who bore a child out of wedlock; also, denies priestly privileges to kohen who has married a woman forbidden to him, as well as to their offspring]. (The Brothers Proops, 1752). Hebrew and Yiddish. ff. 3, (1 blank). [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1653].
* Ampliatie auf tikun M"G mi-tikunei kehilatheinu ["Amplification upon By-law 43 of the By-laws of our Community": regarding burial of the dead on a festival] (The Brothers Proops, 1758). Yiddish. ff. 2. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1762].
* Tipped in: Translat [communal regulations of the Aschkenazi Community of Amsterdam from 16 January, 1759]. Judeo-German. Single-page printed broadside. 9 x 8 inches. Concerning restrictions on solicitations by “Suplikanten” ( supplicants) in Amsterdam. Signed and endorsed by several Gentile officials, including Burgermeister Gelfing (Geelvinck) de Jonge. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1775].
* Translat. Ampliatien al takanoth di-kehilatheinu ["Amplification upon the By-Laws of Our Community": forbidding playhouses and dance halls]. (Leib Susmanns, [1765]). Yiddish. ff. (4). [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1865].
* Ampliatie al takanoth di-kehilatheinu ["Amplification upon the By-Laws of Our Community": austerity laws limiting public celebrations]. (The Brothers Proops, 1768). Yiddish. ff. (2). [Not in Vinograd].
* Ampliatie al takanoth di-kehilatheinu ["Amplification upon the By-Laws of Our Community": austerity laws limiting public celebrations]. (Proops, 1772). On title, crest of the Aschkenazic Community of Amsterdam, "Kehal Aschkenaz Amsterdam." Yiddish. ff. (2). [Vinograd, Amsterdam 2014].
* Translat. Appointment [forbids establishment of independent prayer quorums other than in the house of the Chief Rabbi or in the house of a mourner]. (Proops, [1771]). Yiddish. On title, crest of the Aschkenazic Community of Amsterdam. ff. 4. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 2000].
* Translat. Ampliatien al takanoth kehilatheinu ["Amplifications upon the By-Laws of Our Community": stipulations concerning alms to the poor]. (Kosman ben Joseph Baruch, 1773). Yiddish. On title, crest of the Aschkenazic Community of Amsterdam. f.9v with sign of Aschkenazic community, Hebrew letters Koph, Aleph within Star of David. ff.16 (mispagination omits f.4, but complete). [Vinograd, Amsterdam 2024].
BINDING: Magnificent, elegantly gilt-tooled calf containing a panorama of floral, open leaf and stirrup tools; central gilt cartouche depicts a Star of David with the letters "Koph," "Aleph," "Aleph" surrounding a lyre, under a decorated crown (the crest of the Aschkenazic Community of Amsterdam, "Kehal Aschkenaz Amsterdam"), surmounted by the owner's name "Kosman ben Joseph Baruch" and two angels supporting a larger crown; spine in compartments with gilt leaf and floral tools; gilt dentelles; all edges gilt, gauferred. Complete with metal clasps
With embossed stamp of former owner on title and penultimate blank, gutter starting. 8vo
Amsterdam: 1737-1773
Est: $15,000 - $18,000
PRICE REALIZED $15,000
Fascinating collection of records noting the tightly imposed self-governance of the Aschkenazi Community of Amsterdam.
The original owner of this book, Kosman ben Joseph Baruch, was one of the prominent printers of 18th-century Amsterdam. Indeed the final "Ampliatien" from the year 1773, was printed by Kosman himself. Active in community affairs, he bound all these internal communal regulations into this most lavish binding. See Ganz, Memorbook, p. 189 who displays this very volume as a prime example of the very finest of Dutch-Jewish bindings
