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This Lot has been Withdrawn. Tziglet, Hungary). LeZecher Olam [memorial roll]. Patrons include the officers of the Burial Society, including families: Vardi, Vigner, Plutchok, Vogel and Roth.

Auction 92 · Lot 50

This Lot has been Withdrawn. Tziglet, Hungary). LeZecher Olam [memorial roll]. Patrons include the officers of the Burial Society, including families: Vardi, Vigner, Plutchok, Vogel and Roth.

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(PINKAS).

Place

Cegléd (Zieglet)

Publication

1899

Description

Hebrew manuscript on vellum written in various calligraphic Aschkenazic hands.

summary

Memorial table commences paying homage to the great philanthropists Sir Moses Montefiore and Baron Maurice de Hirsch, followed by dozens of men and women. Names in Hebrew, often with family names in Latin letters. The small town of Zieglet is located in Pest county, southeast of the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Jews first settled in there in the first half of the 19th-century. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cegl%C3%A9d.
pp. 10. Worn and stained in places, few names covered by tape. Modern calf. Square folio.
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