Presentation Document for the title “Ha-Chaver”

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,400

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author

(POLAND).

Place

Brody

Publication

Friday 17th Teveth, 1695

Description

Manuscript vellum leaf. Written in a beautiful, precise Ashkenazic scribal hand in square and Rashi script. Initial three letters historiated in floral setting. A certificate bestowing Tzvi Hirsch son of Yisrael Segal, Chief Justice of the Beth Din of the town of Brody, with the coveted honorific. Signed by three Dayanim of the town

references

See Otzar Ha-Rabanim 12004

summary

The title “Ha-Chaver” entitled the designee to communal honors. Brody is a town situated today in Eastern Galicia in the Ukraine, an area that before World War II was a part of Poland.

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