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Auction 35 · Lot 271
Autograph Manuscript on paper, written in a precise Ashkenazic script in Hebrew,Yiddish and some German. Signed Kalman Lieben, Sopher De-Chevra Kadisha Gemilath Chasadim on f. 27b
- Estimate
- $1,500–$2,000
- Hammer price
- $1,700
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author
LIEBEN, KALMAN OF PRAGUE
Place
Prague
Publication
(1849-54)
summary
Contains a potpourri of original and copied notes, concerning Prague: Biographical information of Rabbi and scholars, specific liturgies, synagogue appurtenances, genealogy, etc.
Lieben was a Prague scholar and bibliopile. He served as the registrar of the community and as actuary of the Chevra Kadisha. He assiduously copied Prague’s community-records, thus preserving the history of this ancient community. Together with Simon Hock, Lieben published a collection of tombstone inscriptions from the old Prague cemetery with biographical data (Gal Ed, Prague, 1856)
ff. 33
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