Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Three Printed Leaves – Yas

Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium

Three leaves printed in Yas (Iași), ca. 1880-1904:
• Proclamation with rabbinic letters addressed to the Rumnik Sarat community (Râmnicu Sărat, Romania), regarding the polemic against a rival rabbi named R. Fishel, who established an independent community and brought in his own shochet. With letters from: R. Uri Shraga Feivel Taubes Rabbi of Yas, R. Avraham Yehoshua Heshel Friedman (rebbe of Bohush-Ruzhin), R. Aryeh Leibish Meisels head of the Premishla Beit Din. Yas, 1902.
• Proclamation, "The ban is annulled" – letter from R. Uri Shraga Feivel Taubes Rabbi of Yas, annulling the ban pronounced by one of the rabbis of Yas against some of the shochetim in town. Yas, Kislev 1904.
• Large leaf, "Juramant Israeletini" (Jewish Oath) in Hebrew and Romanian, completed by hand in Romanian (in Hebrew and Latin characters). Signed by R. Sender Taubes. Yas, November 1883.
Three large leaves. Size and condition vary.


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Jewish Communities – Printed Matter and Manuscripts
Jewish Communities – Printed Matter and Manuscripts