Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Four Documents from Moravia, 19th Century

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Four documents from the cities of Prossnitz and Boskovice, Moravia, 19th century. German.
1. Ketubah/handwritten marriage agreement, for the marriage of Miguel Bass [?] and Rivka Hoch. Prossnitz, 1814. Signed by eight people. The essence of this document is the distribution of the couple's assets in the case one of them dies and they have no children.
2. Correspondence concerning a will. Prossnitz, 1827. Handwritten letter to the authorities in Plumenau, asking to execute a will. The request was probably submitted by families Somer, Gruen and Fleischer, heirs of the deceased sermonizer Handelbach, who mentioned them in his will from 1818.
3-4. Two tax receipts given to the Jew David J. Tietze. Boskovice, 1848. Given against payment of 2 Kreuzer per day.
Central European Jewry
Central European Jewry