Auction 96 Early Printed Books, Chassidut and Kabbalah, Books Printed in Jerusalem, Letters and Manuscripts
Collection of Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates – Signatures and Stamps of Rabbis and Community Leaders of Austria-Hungary – 1855-1950
Collection of 38 official forms – birth, marriage and death certificates issued for Jews of various communities in Austria-Hungary and nearby regions. [Austria-Hungary and nearby regions, 1855-1950]. Hungarian and German.
Official forms, some handwritten and others printed and filled in by hand, signed by Rabbis of cities and community officials, and bearing official stamps of the communities.
The collection includes: • Official form from Troppau (Opava; 1855). • Form of the Budapest community (1876). • Form signed by R. Shraga Feish Pollak, Rabbi of Novi Bečej and Vác (1886). • Form stamped by the Sanz community (1887). • Form signed by the Rabbi of Timișoara and with the community stamp (1892). • Form signed by R. Yaakov Steinhardt, Rabbi of Arad (1884). • Two forms signed by R. Lipa Rosenberg, with the stamp of the Arad community (1893/1895). • Form with the stamp of the Keszeg community (1914). • Form with the stamp of the Tarnów community (1894). • Form with the stamp of the Vienna community (1915). • Form with the stamp of the Przemyśl community (1922). • Marriage certificate of R. Moshe Natan Schick, Rabbi of Miskolc (son of R. Meir Schick, Rabbi of Ónod) and the daughter of R. Moshe Binyamin Ze'ev Lichtenstern, Rabbi of Ürmény (Mojmírovce; Budapest, 1923). • Form signed by R. Arnold Grünfeld, Rabbi of Eger, with the community stamp (1925). • Form signed by R. Moshe Asher Eckstein, Rabbi of Sereď, with the community stamp (1937). • Form signed by R. Yosef Yechiel (Yano) Buxbaum, dayan and posek of Galanta, with the community stamp (1938). • Form signed by the Rabbi of Cegléd, with the community stamp (1938). • Form signed by Dr. Manó Herzog, Rabbi of Kaposvár, with the community stamp. • Form bearing the Munkacs community stamp (1941). • Form bearing the Sighet community stamp (1942). • Form signed by R. Bentzion Halpert, Rabbi of Hajdúnánás (1942). • Birth certificate form of R. Shmuel Shmelke Ginsburg, Rabbi of Mediaș, with stamp of the community (1942). • Form with signature of R. David Gross of Nagykőrös (1943). • Form of the Budapest community (1945). • Forms from after the Holocaust of the Budapest, Miskolc and Ujhel communities. • Additional forms.
[38] leaves. Varying size and condition. Overall good-fair condition.