Liste der öst. Ung. Unterthanen im Saffed [List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed], handwritten notebook (12 written pages). Safed, May 29, 1885. German.
Booklet containing a list of 147 Jewish subjects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, residents of Safed during the late 19th century. The last page is stamped with an official stamp of the "Austria Kollel" ("Kollel Österreich") in Safed, and bears signatures and stamps (in Hebrew and Latin letters) of three of the heads of the Kollel: "M.[Moshe] Zeiger Charag in Safeth" (1824-1909), representative of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager of Vizhnitz in the Kollel, grandfather of the artist Yosef Zvi Geiger (1870-1944); Berisch Lüstman, representative of Lviv's Jews in the Kollel; and Jacub Fridfertig, representative of the "Vizhnitz Kollel" in the "Austria Kollel."
Underneath appears an official inked stamp of the Austro-Hungarian consular agency in Safed, alongside the handwritten signature of the consular agent, Josef Miklasiewicz (1825-1907.)
[12] written pages (+ [4] blank pages), 29 cm. Good condition. Vertical fold line. Minor marginal tears. Stains and inscription to blank pages.
