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Register of the Hevrah Kadisha (burial society) "Ahavat Yisrael," located at 1372-4 Gates Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, The address is included on the cover and the title page. The title page is calligraphed and illuminated in gold and colored ink with architectural columns, rampant lions and other decorative elements. The entries are written in Yiddish and Hebrew in square characters. The volume includes an introduction (page 5), takanot (by-laws) of the Society relating to official duties (pages 15-23), history of the Hevra Kadisha and lists of officers and members (pages 43-59, 129-135), a second title page (page 461) followed by detailed descriptions of practices related to accompanying, purifying, and dressing the deceased, and yahrtzeits of members (463-497). The Hevrah Kadisha was founded on 15 Kislev 5676 (December 1915). This volume is dated 683 [1923] with additional entries added in subsequent years, one as late as 1988. Original binding, red Morocco, spine detached. 500 pages, including numerous blanks; 40 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.

Payment for other services, e.g. for renting the house from the rabbi, etc. Mainly in Hebrew script, but payments to Germans listed in back of register in German. 18 cm.

Names of important emissaries from Jerusalem, Tiberias, Safed, etc. are cited. Expenses, such as hiring of servants of emissaries. Charities for other purposes as well, such as to help the healing of the rabbi. 40 cm.

Cover title: Copie de lettres. Beirut. Jewish communal register, containing records of meetings and decisions by the community council, names of members of the community, and communications with governmental authorities of Lebanon and Palestine, rabbinical courts and other communities. In French. 500 pp.; 28 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.

Varpalota, Hungary. Description provided by vendor: Manuscript on paper. 328 leaves, inlcuding 17 blanks. Written in Ashkenazic cursive script, title page and first few leaves in Ashkenazic square script, title page decorated and framed in blue, red, green and brown gouache, several leaves framed in brown gouache, first 20 leaves paginated in ink in Hebrew letters. Contemporary calf paneled in blind, sunburst pattern on upper cover, edges stained red, lower cover lacking, spine cockled. Although a Jewish minter was mentioned in the annals of Varpalota as early as 1542, significant Jewish settlement in this village some fifty miles west of Budapest did not occur until the beginning of the eighteenth century. The community included a variety of merchants as well as peddlers of local produce. This volume records the membership rolls of Ḥevra ḳadisha members including apprentices over a span of over a century. The scribe, Yitzhak Yosef, creates the chronogram on the title-page by an innovative use of his own name. Manuscript in Hebrew and Yiddish, with the official Hungarian and Hebrew stamp of Chévra ... Egýlet, Várpalotán. [328] l.; 20 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.

Csaba, Hungary. Communal register, including by-laws, minutes of meetings, records of income and expenditures. In Yiddish, Hebrew and Hungarian. 134 leaves; 40 cm., . This item has been microfilmed; see film HM 271-2.

Register of the society for visiting the sick and providing dowries for brides in the Jewish community of Astrakhanʹ, Russia. Contains mission statements, by-laws, and the names of leaders and members, with women given autonomy to provide for the needs of the brides. The society was founded 1 Tamuz 648 [1888]. Dates of death of some of the members were added subsequently, as late as 20 Tevet 688 [1928]. At the back of the register there are two statements of fathers dated in the 1892 and 1895 testifying that their daughters were playing with other girls and accidently started bleeding. Apparently this was to prevent accusations concerning loss of virginity. Manuscript, ink on vellum. In Hebrew and Yiddish. The title page is illuminated with an intricate multi-colored drawing of an arched gate with columns on either side, six pointed stars, vases with flowers, and geometric patterns all enclosed within a decorative border. 20 pages; 30 centimeters. Original embossed leather binding with title stamped on front cover in cyrillic letters.