Lida, David. Sod Hashem [meditations and prayers relating to the circumcision ceremony]

(HUNGARY).

Anton Schmid

Vienna

1837

On front fly: "Shayach Le...Yonathan ben Yakov Sega"l Shpitzer, 1845, Teting.” The blank leaves following the printed text have been inscribed to record circumcisions performed in various locales in Hungary between the years 1842-1861 (see below)

Vinograd, Vienna 793

The mohel states his permanent place of residence the community of "Teting." (Later, in 1856, he refers to Tököl as his residence.) Though occasionally performing a circumcision in the city of "Ofen" (the old name for Budapest) [no.16], he was most active in communities to the south of the capital: Harast (today Dunaharaszti) [no.38], a popular holiday resort for residents of Pest, the adjacent town of Szigetszentmiklós [no. 43], and rural communities and villages (many of which are today buried in obscurity). Spitzer's circumcisions for the first decade of his career (1842-1852) are enumerated 1-111