Shomer Habrith [Prayers and texts to be recited and studied prior to circumcision with instructions in performing the ritual]. Amsterdam, 1719.

A particularly extensive and personally revealing Mohel’s record of the performance of 746 circumcisions during the course of the years 1784-1845, in the region of Alsace-Lorraine, Includes the communities in Colmar, Wintzenheim, Metz, Horbourg, Sulzmath (Soultzmatt), Belfort, Hattstatt, Sierentz and others. Preliminary leaves record the deaths of the Mohel’s parents and grandparents with many details of their lives and their dedication to the education of their children. The manuscript proceeds with an account as to why the Mohel took up his profession, whereafter he expresses his gratitude to God for such a blessed responsibility. The actual operation of many of the circumcisions were divided, with one person performing the actual cut, another performing the Periah and a third person the Metzitzah. Interestingly, the Mohel notes of medical problems encountered (see entry numbers 343 and 430), of not is entry number 347 which records the attendance at the ceremony of the head of the French Consistoire. Towards the end of the record-book, the Mohel notes his performance of the circumcision of his grandchildren. Final two leaves contain procedures in Yiddish and ingredients in French to heal the wound and soothe any pain. A most useful record for Alsace-Lorraine Jewish genealogy, with personal details and inter-relationships of many families and localities.