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Cover title: Sefer ha-zikaron hevrah Ezer-yoledet. Yerushala[y]im. Extensively illuminated, colorful title page. By-laws and membership list of an aid society for women giving birth, signed by the women who founded it with official stamps of rabbinical courts in Jerusalem. Includes names of important women in the Jerusalem's Jewish community before the creation of the state of Israel. According to the vendor, this is the only known register created by women in pre-1948 Israel. [22] pp.

London. Lists of contributions, memorial pages, by-laws of committee at London's Maidman Street synagogue. Large, high quality book with ornate, colorful calligraphy and paper-cuts. In Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. Approx. 30 pp.; 43 cm.

Jerusalem. Communal register of a social welfare society providing aid for the ill and needy in Jerusalem, founded by the ultra-Orthodox Hungarian community, "Kolel Ungarn," [p. 2] -- אלה התקנות אשר לחברת לינת הצדק וביקור חולים הנוסדה ע"י חסידי בית המדרש "אוהל יצחק" אשר לכולל אונגארין Manuscript with calligraphy in black, red, green and gold ink. Headings in block letters and text in Rashi script. Decorative, stamped borders on title pages and introduction. Ten pages of by-laws of the society written in Hebrew and Yiddish, followed by pages with names of members, men and women. Women's section has title : Shaar ezrat nashim ha-menuyot le-ḥevratenu ha-ḳ. = 'שער עזרת נשים המנויות לחברתינו הק. One vol.; 37 cm.

Tsefat. List of contributors to the yeshivah at the tomb of Simeon bar Yohai and his son, Eleazar, in Meron. Extensively illuminated title page with calligraphy and decorative borders in different shades of gold ink. In Hebrew.

Hermanshṭadṭ (Sibiu, Romania). Communal register from a social welfare society founded in 632 [1871 or 1872] in the Jewish community of Sibiu, Romania, known in German as Hermannstadt. Luxurious and ornate volume bound in velvet, with engraved silver title plate, latch and trim. Calligraphy and borders in gold, blue, red and black ink. Title page has elaborate micrographic borders made up of biblical verses. Seven pages of by-laws are written in Judeo-German and signed by the leaders of the society in Budapest on October 12, 1882. The rest of the pages are inscribed with names of the members. There is an index in the back of the book for the first 39 names; approximately another hundred names were added subsequently. Manuscript in Yiddish and Hebrew. 42 cm.

Yerushalayim. Communal register of the most important synagogue in the old city of Jerusalem, Hurbat R. Yehudah he-Hasid. Includes three pages of by-laws, about twenty pages of names of the men and women in the society, and also approximately eleven pages of names of women with the "conditions" of their entry into the society: financial contributions, prayers, and other customs of the society. These conditions were signed by rabbinic leaders of Jerusalem, including: R. Yehudah Hilman, author of 666 [1906], R. Avraham Yaakov Shubatski and R. Yitshak Aizik Yafah, a leader of the Vilna Seminary. In Hebrew. 34 pp.; 39 cm.

Jerusalem. Records of distributions of charitable funds by the Sephardic rabbis of Jerusalem, as well as Hebron, Tiberias, and Jaffa. In Hebrew and Ladino. May include documents from later in the nineteenth century. 58 leaves‚ 30 cm.

On cover: "Naaśah ṿe-nigmar... a.y.... Yosef Daṿid.": Ardovo, Slovakia. Communal register from the Jewish community of Ardovo in southern Slovakia. This manuscript includes eighteen pages of by-laws of the community; six pages of decisions and additions to those regulations signed by famous rabbis, including Mordekhai ha-Levi Horovits; and forty pages listing names of members. Half of the by-laws are written in Hebrew and half in Yiddish. Section headings: . 1 vol.; 36 x 26 cm.

Deṿa [Bacia, Romania]. Jewish communal register of a ḥevrah ḳadisha, a term which often refers to a burial society, sometimes with a broader social welfare role as well. The title page includes a calligraphed border with the quotation from responsa on the Mishnah, "Man worries about losing his money; man does not worry about losing his days. His days do not return; his money does not help." The name of the community, Deṿa [Bacia, Romania], appears on p. 31 of the book. The volume contains five pages of by-laws of the society written in Yiddish script and individual pages for each member. The member's names are written in large Hebrew letters, outlined and filled in with stripes, checks, or other decorative patterns, and the vernacular name is written in script at the top of most of the pages. Below each name is a list of the member's pledges and contributions, and if the member died, the date of death. Manuscript in Yiddish and Hebrew. 45 cm.

Palati (Palota?), Romania. Register of Jewish community. Manuscript in Hebrew and Romanian. Title page illuminated with colored paints. Original leather cover. 1 vol. (approx. 100 pp. with writing); 34 cm.