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Megillat Saragosanos – Commemorating Saragossa Purim – Jerusalem, 1872
Megillat Saragosanos, a work in the style of the Book of Esther, commemorating Saragossa Purim. Jerusalem: Shmelke Yosef Shmer and Yitzchak Gościnny, 1872.
Saragossa Purim is celebrated on 17th and 18th of Shevat every year, in memory of a miracle that took place in 1380 (or 1420 in other versions) for a Jewish community in Italy or Spain (according to different accounts). Saragosanos is an epithet for the king. Saragossa Jews read this Megillah every year (on 17th or 18th Shevat), like the reading of the Megillah on Purim.
[1], 4, [1] leaves. 18 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears and open tears to several leaves, slightly affecting text. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 179.
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