Lida, David. Sepher Sod Hashem [Mohel’s compendium]

Estimate: $12,000–$15,000
Hammer price: $12,000

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Place

Albany, N.Y

Publication

1843-46

Description

With 63 manuscript inscriptions recording the performance of circumcisions in Albany, New York. Hebrew with occasional use of English. Signed on end-papers in German and Yiddish indicating the ownership of David b. Joseph Segal (Loewy) of Bierstadt, near Wiesbaden

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1585

summary

One of the earliest known American Milah books. Rabbi Segal emigrated to America and performed circumcisions in Albany as well as Kingston, Ulster County. An important geneological record of the families residing in Albany in the mid-19th century

Browned and stained. Contemporary marbled boards. 12mo

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