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].
* BOUND WITH: 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].
* 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.15 (of 16, our copy wanting f.10). [Vinograd, Amsterdam 2024].
* Takanoth HaKehillah [Regulations of the Aschkenazic Community of Amsterdam]. Title within typographic border. Hebrew in square characters and Yiddish in Waybertaytsch letters. ff. 6-33. (Wanting first 8 leaves + ff.18, 27.) Bottom of f.23 torn, some text wanting. (Abraham Athias, 1737). [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1478]
Gilt on binding worn, rubbed. 8vo. Gans, Memorbook, p. 189 (facs. of binding)
Amsterdam: 1737-1773
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
Fascinating collection of records noting the tightly imposed self-government of the Aschkenazic Community of Amsterdam. These internal communal regulations are bound here in a most lavish binding, an illustration of which, noted as an exceptional example of fine Dutch-Jewish bindings, is portrayed in M.H. Gans, Memorbook (1977) p.189.
