David Lida. Sepher Sod Hashem [Mohel’s compendium with prayers]. With commentary Sharvit HaZahav.

(MOHEL-BOOK).

Anton Schmid

Vienna

1837

With 296-page Manuscript supplement, recording 1,818 circumcisions performed by the noted Mohel R. Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins. Hebrew, with occasional use of German and Dutch.

Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins’s Pinkas Mohel circumcision-registry. A record of 1,818 circumcisions performed by Rabbi Prins between 1855 and 1889. Each listing, consisting of name, date, and place, is meticulously recorded in his neat hand. Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins (1835-1915) was an Amsterdam businessman, bibliophile and scholar, as well as an active mohel. In 1887 he retired and moved to Frankfurt, where he devoted himself to scholarship full time. He corresponded with many of the great Jewish scholars of the day, and published valuable scholarly works on Talmud and the liturgy. See M. Herskovics & E. Bendheim (Eds.) Eliezer Liepman Prins, Parnas L’Doro:  His Scholarly Correspondence (1992 and 1996).