Manuscript, Sefer HaBrit, a mohel notebook of Rabbi Yeshaya Shechter. Tel Aviv, 1937-1951.
thick volume, recording approximately 4000 circumcisions performed by the mohel. Attractive, neat writing, arranged in a table containing the name of the boy, his father, the last name, date of birth and date of circumcision.
Elaborately adorned title page: "this is the Sefer HaBrit of the children circumcised by the mohel Yeshaya Shechter…who was appointed to this holy task… in 1941 and as a result of the destruction of German Jewry in 1933-5, I have lost many lists of children I have circumcised in the city of Magdeburg and Essen and their surroundings".
135 written pages. 33 cm. Good condition, stains and minor wear. Light damages to binding.