TAKANOTh OF THE LIVERPOOL SYNAGOGUE. Contains 35 "old" Takanoth and 52 "new" Takanoth.

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

Liverpool

1805

Manuscript on paper. 57 leaves. Square and cursive Ashkenazic script. In Yiddish and Hebrew

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