Lot 240
Letter of Ashkenazi Shohatim (Slaughterers) in Jerusalem, 1875
Letter signed by five Shohatim (slaughterers) from the Ashkenazi congregation of Jerusalem, Av 1875.
Obligatory writ stating that upon appeasement of the Kashrut supervisors of the slaughterhouse, their weekly salary will be raised to 72 Grush, and at the same time they take upon themselves “as strictly forbidden by their Creator”: “that we will no longer take any pieces which are referred to as gifts…not to take for ourselves even a single piece and not to accept any gift from the gentile slaughterers”.
The first signatory notes a reservation to the agreement; only in the case that “the Chassidim do not separate and open a slaughterhouse of their own, however if they do I will be forced to join them, in which case the abovementioned will not apply to me”.
Approx. 20 cm. leaf. Cut on margins.
