Auction 73 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

"Agudas Achim" in Vienna – A Statutes Booklet and a Handwritten Memorial Book – Vienna, 1910-1923

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Printed statutes booklet and a handwritten memorial book, documenting the activity of the "Agudas Achim" society in Vienna. Vienna, 1910 and 1923. German.
1. Statuten des Israelitischen Bethausvereines "Agudas Achim" in Wien [Statutes of the Jewish synagogue society of "Agudas Achim" in Vienna]. Published by the society, Vienna, 1910 (printed by Adolph Alkalai & Sohn, Pressburg).
Fifteen statutes regulating the activity of the "Agudas Achim" society. Printed notes with corrections or additions to the statutes mounted on three leaves.
15, [1] pp, approx. 16 cm. Good condition. Creases. Several pencil inscriptions. Wrappers split in two and detached.
Not recorded in OCLC.
2. Gedenkbuch des Israel. Bethhaus-Vereins, Agudas Achim [Memorial Book of the Jewish Synagogue Society Agudas Achim]. Vienna, 1923.
Handwritten memorial book of the "Agudas Achim" society. The book contains a detailed review on the establishment of the society's synagogue on Hammer-Purgstallgasse street, as well as eulogies and information about the lives of the founders and position-holders of the society – the founder of the synagogue Tobias Spiegel, Rabbi Michael Leopold Goldstein and others. The book opens with a short introduction, dated 1923. Most of the leaves of the book remained blank.
[23] written pages, 34 cm. Good condition. Several stains. Front endpaper partly detached. Elegant gilt-tooled leather binding. Gilt edges.
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