Collection of 75 official documents in Hungarian, most filled in handwriting, and signed and stamped by Hungarian rabbis and community leaders just before the Holocaust – registration of Pinkasim (community ledgers). [Hungary, ca. 1939.] Hungarian.
Official documents, apparently printed by the Central Orthodox Bureau in Budapest and sent to rabbis and leaders of various Hungarian communities for them to register the breadth and range of years of Pinkasim documenting births, marriages, deaths and conscriptions existing in their communities. The forms were filled in by hand by rabbis and community leaders, who added various handwritten notes and inscriptions with additional information about the Pinkasim in their communities. Most of the forms bear the official stamp of the congregation.
The present item is a rare and exceptional documentation of the various Pinkasim in Hungary just before the Holocaust. Most of the rabbis and community leaders who signed the documents perished in the Holocaust.
The collection includes:
• Form for the Pinkasim of Sopron (Ödenburg), filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Shimon Yisrael Posen [1895-1969; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 412-414].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Verpelet, filled in by hand and signed, apparently by rabbi of the community R. Yosef Asher HaLevi Pollak [1898-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 148-149].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Dunaföldvár, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yitzchak Zekel Pollak [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria p. 117].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Szerencs, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Menachem HaLevi Pollak [1890-1953; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 298-299].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Neuhäusel (Érsekújvár), filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yosef Meir Tigerman [1852-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 47-49].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Békéscsaba, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yitzchak Tigerman [1890-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 63-64].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Kunszentmiklós, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yitzchak Tzvi Eizik Panet [1902-1968; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 374-375].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Weitzen (Vác), filled in by hand, signed and stamped by rabbi of the community R. David Yehudah Leib Silberstein [1885-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 145-146].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Beled, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Aharon Silberstein [perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 53-54].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Mezőcsát, filled in by hand and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Shraga Tzvi Altman [1898-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 206-207].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Bayom (Biharnagybajom), filled in by hand and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Naftali Brisk [1904-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 88].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Tiszadada, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. David Yaakov Brisk [perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 180].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Polgár, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Menachem Mendel Lemberger [1874-1943; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 337-338].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Feledhaza (Kiskunfélegyháza), filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Aharon Mordechai Lieberman [1886-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 382-383].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Vágsellye, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Mordechai HaKohen Strasser [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria p. 140-141].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Tiszafüred, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Shmuel Binyamin HaKohen Strasser [1890-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 183-184].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Szenc, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Menachem Mendel (Mano) Bresnitz [1883-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 288].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Kiskőrös, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yaakov Sneiders [died 1984; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 383-384].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Balatonfüred, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Ezra Menachem Goldstein [died 1942; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 54-55].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Komárom, filled in by hand, signed and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Yehoshua Lefkowitz [1894-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 369-370].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Derecske, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Tzvi Hirsch Katz Kahn [died 1971; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 109-110].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Pétervására, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Shmuel Reinitz, author of Arugat HaBosem [perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 315].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Mezőkeresztes, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Menachem Tzvi Friedman [perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 208].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Bátorkeszi, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Tzvi HaKohen Shatin [born 1884, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 50-51].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Nagysalló, filled in by hand and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Yosef Abeles [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 375-376].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Szepsi, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Moshe Tennenbaum [1886-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 292].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Tarcal, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yehoshua Heshel Rosner [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria p. 167].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Kolta, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Aryeh Reichhardt [1883-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 368].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Sárbogárd, filled in by hand and signed, apparently by rabbi of the community R. Yekutiel Ze'ev Roth [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 406-407].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Csepreg, filled in by hand, apparently by rabbi of the community R. Yechezkel Shraga HaKohen Moskowitz [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria p. 347].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Rimaszombat, filled in by hand and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Eliezer Singer [1888-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 396-397].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Jóka, filled in by hand, signed and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Shmuel König [1890-1945, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 190-191].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Hahót, filled in by hand, signed and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Yosef Rosenberger [Kehillot Hungaria p. 119].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Sajószentpéter, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Moshe Chaim Grünfeld [1888-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 400-402].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Püspökladány, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Avraham Segal Strauss [died 1940; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 341-342].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Ózd-Bolyok, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yerachmiel Katzburg [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 12-13].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Tiszabercel, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Ezra HaKohen Fried [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria p. 179].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Nagyida, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yisrael Felberman [died 1942; Kehillot Hungaria p. 232].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Gyönk, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Yosef Yitzchak Meisner [1875-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 99-100].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Nyíracsád, filled in by hand and signed, apparently by rabbi of the community R. Avraham Yosef Lichtenstein [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 268-269].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Diósgyőr, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Tuviah Peretz Stein [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 117-118].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Pomáz, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Aharon Tzvi Gross [perished in the Holocaust 1945; Kehillot Hungaria p. 339].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Tolcsva, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Akiva Pinchas Kornitzer [ca. 1900-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 171-172].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Torna, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. Shmuel Tennenbaum [1889-1944, perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 174-175].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Nemesszalók, filled in by hand and signed by rabbi of the community R. David Schick [1872-perished in the Holocaust; Kehillot Hungaria p. 262].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Gúta (Kolárovo), filled in by hand, signed and stamped by rabbi of the community R. Yechiel Baum [1977-1940; Kehillot Hungaria p. 96].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Cece, filled in by hand and signed by R. Yekutiel Ze'ev Roth, Av Beit Din of Sárbogárd [perished in the Holocaust 1944; Kehillot Hungaria pp. 348, 406-407].
• Form for the Pinkasim of Erdőbénye, filled in by hand and signed by president of the community R. Shimon Gutman [Kehillot Hungaria pp. 63-64].
The collection likewise contains additional forms filled in by hand, with or without the stamps of the community (or signed by rabbis or community leaders we were unable to identify), including forms for the Pinkasim of the following communities: • Bűdszentmihály; • Nagymegyer (Magendorf); • Munkács; • Ungvár; • Eger (Erlau); • Mád; • Gyömöre (Yemering); • Nagykálló (Kaliv); • Nagysurány; • Szatmárököritó; • Zala Mihályfa; • Kassa (Košice); • Tab; • Jolsva; • Czecze; • Székesfehérvár; • Hejőcsaba; • Dévaványa; • Nagyoroszi; • Tiszalök; • Kaba; • Szarvas; • Vámosmikola; • Abaújszina (Seňa); • Győrszentmárton (Martinsberg); • Kapuvár.
[75] leaves. 34 cm. Overall good condition.
