PINKAS KAHAL ADATH YESHURUN, PALATA

(GERMANY)

Palat

1785-1834

Manuscript on paper in Yiddish and Hebrew cursive Ashkenazic script. Boldly painted color title in folk-art style, within architectural arch flanked by lions fronting a Star-of-David,

Contains records of sales of family pews in the Palata Synagogue each attested to by the Chief Rabbi of Palata, Rabbi Benjamin Wolf Chayot, with his autograph signature, signed over one hundred times, below each of these transactions. Palata, a town bordering Germany and Galicia records in its’ Pinkas, details regulations concerning social and economic affairs. Includes 39 Takanoth regarding Synagogue and social procedures relating to marriages, tax obligations and other responsibilities. Rabbi Chayot was one of the prominent Rabbinical figures of his time and was a frequent and trusted correspondent with Rabbi Moshe Sofer of Pressburg (The Chatham Sofer)